i'm going to see the head teacher of aspire academy in essex.eb garfield is turning whistle—blower, even though she knows it might get herfired. hello, bronagh, lovely to meet you... her deputy head kathryn webb is risking herjob by speaking out too. we watched the programme and we started texting each other at the time just saying, "oh my god". this is our story. it just made us feel that we weren't really on our own and that perhaps it is a bigger problem. how big a step was it contacting us? huge. in many ways it's almost career suicide for people. i've never spoken out against my bosses before and in such a public way but we've tried to do it the proper way through the proper channels but we've just not been able to get anywhere and we've been pushed into a corner. it's for our children. aspire takes children who have been excluded from mainstream schools. deb and catherine helped to set up the academy in 2014. our kids have quite often had a raw deal from education and to see them have a brand—new school that had been built for them was lov