By IAN MIDGLEY

An Asian physics teacher has claimed he was the victim of bullying by other staff at the Keighley school where he worked.

Mohammed Rahim Shojaee, 49, from Leeds, is claiming racial discrimination against Greenhead Grammar School, Keighley, his head teacher Miles Mizon and Bradford Council.

Mr Shojaee, who started at the school as a student teacher, yesterday claimed that his complaints over unfair treatment were consistently ignored by senior management at the school.

Presenting his case to an employment tribunal in Leeds, Mr Shojaee said that senior figures at the school had failed to back him during an Ofsted inspection in March 1998.

He said that the stress caused by the inspection had forced him to take time off work depressed.

Giving evidence, Mr Shojaee said that the Ofsted inspector, who had graded his lessons, had been rude and aggressive but staff, including Mr Mizon, had failed to take his complaints seriously.

He said: "The inspector examined my books like a policeman searching the house of a suspect.

"I raised these concerns with the management of the school but it has not been dealt in a proper way. It was handled in a very biased way by school management."

The tribunal heard that the inspector graded two of his lessons as less than satisfactory.

Mr Shojaee said that during the spring term of 1998, one pupil had jetted water on him during a science lesson but no action had been taken when he had complained about the boy.

He said: "In my case the incident was only recorded and the information was passed back to me to go and tell somebody else about.

"The parents of this boy were also told that I was taking legal action against him which came as a surprise to me. This was obviously done to humiliate me and undermine my position and inflict maximum damage on my reputation."

While Mr Shojaee was off work suffering from stress, he also claimed that Mr Mizon had refused his request to return to work for four days a week and spend a fifth day studying for a Phd.

He said: "Obviously Mr Mizon didn't want that. He wanted me in the classroom five days a week to be bullied."

The tribunal continues.

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