Teacher Says He Lost His Job For Putting Up 150 Flags After Being ‘Snitched On’

A supply teacher has claimed he got the sack after being “snitched on” for putting up flags around his hometown.

Shaun Remmer, 49, claims he put up a total of 150 flags – including Union Jacks – around Thirsk in North Yorkshire where he lives, which sounds like peak unemployed behaviour, to be fair.

The dad-of-one was working his ‘dream job’ as a teaching assistant at Welburn Hall School in York, but claims he got the sack because someone told the school he was a flag-shagger.

Shaun said: “I have not hidden myself or wore a mask, so everyone knows it is me putting up the flags.

“I get people coming up to me in the supermarket telling me that it looks amazing.

“I have been putting up the flag of Ulster, which was stopped being in use from 1973.

“I also put Scottish, Irish and Welsh flags too. It has brought people together.”

Shaun fears he won’t be able to find work elsewhere as he could face issues with DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks.

He said: “They basically said they do not want me back and no longer want me to work at the school because I am racist.

“I tried to get some work at another agency but they had heard what happened and they turned me down as they said it was a ‘safeguarding issue’.

“I have now been told that this might be put on my DBS. It is really upsetting as teaching is my dream job. I loved my job and the kids loved me.

“I have worked in the Philippines and adopted other cultures, so how can I be racist? I am a single dad, so I needed this job.”

Marianne Best, headmistress of Welburn Hall school, said Shaun wasn’t actually sacked, just asked not to come back, as his one-year role was on a temporary basis through an education recruitment agency.

Furthermore, the safeguarding issue was to do with posts he made on social media, including on the Facebook pages of Manchester Evening News and Yorkshire Live, which the school deemed ‘racist’. This included posts about “problems we have in the country such as young girls getting raped.”

In fairness, you’re asking for trouble posting stuff like that on social media when you’re working at a school, or with kids in general.

Meanwhile, North Yorkshire Council have also written to Shaun asking him to stop putting up the flags due to “safety issues”.

For the dad who spent 6 hours painting a St. George’s Cross onto the front of his house after someone tore down his England flag, click HERE. That’ll show them.