Sommer De La Rosa: "Sacked because I am a witch"

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Checking this URL: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007130233,00.html you can read this terrible new: Sacked because I am a witch By ANTONELLA LAZZERI - March 21, 2007 A SACKED teaching assistant claimed yesterday she was given the boot because she’s a WITCH. Sommer De La Rosa, 34, said school chiefs feared she would brainwash students with her pagan beliefs. She told an employment tribunal: “I was shunned by other teachers because of my faith. “Once they found out I was a white witch they were different towards me. They would only talk to me if it was absolutely necessary.” Ms De La Rosa, who practises pagan religion Wicca, claims one teacher told her to stop wearing her pentagram necklace, a traditional pagan symbol. She was sacked last May after nine months in the religious education and music departments at Dorothy Stringer Secondary School in Brighton, East Sussex. She claims unfair dismissal, but the school and Brighton and Hove Council say she was sacked due to a poor attendance record and “inappropriate disclosures” to students. The tribunal in Hove continues.