History master didn’t want to teach ‘blackies and chinkies’

A veteran history teacher who told shocked colleagues:’I don’t want to teach blackies and chinkies in my classroom,’ has been thrown out of the profession. Philip Pedley allowed pupils to drink so much on a school trip to Vienna and Budapest that two became ill, National College for Teaching and Leadership heard. He had been a teacher at the Oundle school in Peterborough for 37 years and colleagues and former pupils sent more than 50 letters to the hearing trying…