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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Athena Stavrou

Teacher banned after telling pupils Rosa Parks did not give up bus seat and Martin Luther King was a fraud

A teacher who told year six children that Rosa Parks "did not exist" and that Martin Luther King was guilty of plagiarism has been banned.

Patrick Lawler, 62, was found to have brought the teaching profession into disrepute after making a series of offensive comments.

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