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10-05-2005, 10:47
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חבר מתאריך: 28.10.01
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והנסיך נתפס מעתיק בבחינה באיטון
מורתו של הארי באיטון טוענת כי חלק מבחינת הבגרות של הנסיך נעשתה בעזרת המורים.
Cheat' teacher desperate to help Harry pass
A teacher marking Prince Harry's entrance exam to Eton College was "desperate" to award marks to help him pass, a tribunal has heard.
The Prince, who this week started officer training at Sandhurst, was considered a "weak" student by staff at the college, his former art teacher said.
Sarah Forsyth, 30, also claimed in a statement to the tribunal in Reading that parts of a painting featured in newspapers as the Prince's A-Level work had been completed by another teacher. Ms Forsyth, who is claiming unfair dismissal against Eton, claims that her former head of department, Ian Burke, would occasionally do painting for the boys while he talked to them about betting or football - something the boys encouraged by keeping him on his "pet subjects".
She claims in her statement that Mr Burke also worked on the boys' paintings in their absence, including Prince Harry's work which later featured in newspapers.
Ms Forsyth, who worked at Eton until the summer of 2003, when her contract was not renewed, claims she wrote the text to an AS-Level art project handed in by the Prince the previous year.
'Unethical'
She told the tribunal that she considered this to be "unethical and probably constituted to cheating".
Facing dismissal from the school a year later, she secretly recorded a conversation with the Prince on his way to his A-Level art examination in which she claims Harry confirmed that he had written "about a sentence" of the text to his "Expressive project".
In a statement to the tribunal, she set out how, in her account, the night before a moderator was due to arrive at the school to look at the students' AS-Level work, she was asked by Mr Burke to prepare some lines of text to accompany images prepared by the Prince.
She said she later saw the Prince sitting beside Mr Burke at a computer with his file open and scissors next to them, apparently reading through a print-out of her text and deciding which bits should go where.
She claimed that the Prince thanked her for preparing the text, which was the only contact she had with him on the subject at the time.
But she added: "I was concerned that this was unethical and probably constituted to cheating.
'Weak student'
"I assumed I had been asked to do this because Prince Harry was a weak student (I had been told some time before by Michael Wilcockson, who had marked his entrance examination, that he had been 'desperate' to find points for which to award marks).
"However, I did not think I could tell anyone else about the incident without fear of victimisation and was not aware that statutory protection against such victimisation existed.
"I have recently seen for the first time extracts of the written material which was submitted on Prince Harry's behalf and can confirm that it was nearly all written by me."
Shown the Prince's project by her barrister, Robin Allen QC, she told the tribunal that she had written the text whilst seated at a computer.
Disputing that her contract had not been renewed because of the quality of her teaching she claimed, under cross-examination by Nigel Giffen QC: "I believe I was dismissed partly because Mr Burke wanted to give his girlfriend the job and also because of the Prince Harry mess, also because I think, well, I don't know what reasons Mr Burke had, but I don't think he wanted me in the department for reasons other than the teaching."
She later admitted in cross-examination that her disclosure that she had recorded the conversation with Prince Harry had been made after it was clear she would not be employed the following year, she said that the revelation about the tape recorder had used up "any currency" which she might have had with the headmaster.
She continued: "Any goodwill which I might have had before in terms of a reference or, I don't know, any goodwill effectively went up in a puff of smoke at that point."
Ms Forsyth told how she began to realise that she would lose her job around February 2002 when she had a meeting with the then headmaster John Lewis, who told her that her appointment was not being confirmed.
A few days after the meeting, the tribunal heard, Ms Forsyth got a class of boys to iron images into their shirts as a "protest" following what she had been told by the headmaster.
She told the tribunal "I did it as an act of rebellion which I knew that the students would want to take part in because their uniform was an aspect of their school life in which they tried to make themselves different from one another."
She admitted that she had acted in an unprofessional manner and that she regretted the incident.
Tape recordings
But she told the tribunal that she did not feel she had been acting unprofessionally when, in January 2003, she first tried her hand at making overt tape recordings.
The tribunal heard that following an exchange between Ms Forsyth and Mr Burke, which she said left her upset, she went to the Sony Centre in Windsor and bought a mini tape recorder and recorded most of a conversation with Mr Burke that afternoon.
The tribunal heard, however, that Ms Forsyth had difficulties with the tape recorder. She claimed today that Mr Burke may have suspected what she was doing.
She said: "The tape recorder had a little red light and I was wearing a white blouse and I noticed that Ian was looking at the area around my chest back and forth and when I looked down I noticed that there was a red glow.
"Afterwards, when the tape ended, it clicked and he smiled."
The tribunal heard that she also had difficulties when, in May 2003, she made her recording of Prince Harry.
In her statement she said "The reason the recording of the conversation is only a brief extract is that I had difficulty with the machine, which I had only used once before and was still not entirely familiar with.
"When I tried to rewind the tape afterwards I accidentally pressed record and taped over the end of the conversation."
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