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The family of a headteacher who killed herself while waiting for an Ofsted report said she had experienced 'the worst day of her life' when inspectors reviewed the school.
Ruth Perry, 53, was the headteacher at Caversham Primary School in Reading and took her own life in January after being told the school was being downgraded from Outstanding to Inadequate. Her sister, Julia Waters, said she was 'an absolute shadow of herself' following the inspection.
She told BBC South that inspectors said a boy doing a flossing dance move, from the video game Fortnite, was evidence of the sexualisation of children at the school. She also said Ms Perry had experienced the “worst day of her life” after inspectors reviewed the school on November 15 and 16 last year.
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Ms Waters went on: “Ruth took her own life on January 8, all during that process every time I spoke to her, she would talk about the countdown. I remember her clearly one day saying ‘52 days and counting’, every day she had this weight on her shoulders hanging over her and she wasn’t officially allowed to talk to her family.
"I remember the very first day I saw her, rather than just speaking to her on the phone, a couple of days after the end of the Ofsted inspection, she came, she was an absolute shadow of her former self.”
She said the inspection destroyed 32 years of her vocation and “preyed on her mind until she couldn’t take it any more”. The report, which was published this week, found the school to be Good in every category, apart from leadership and management, where it was judged to be Inadequate, the lowest rating.
Inspectors said school leaders did not have the
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