Too thin to leach on
'NZPA-Reuter Vernon, France A 30-year-old teacher of English at a Normandy high | i school has been sacked because she is too thin. Mrs Jocelyne Bodere, a 1.5 metre (4ft. lllin) tall mother,' ’weighs only 40kg (6st 41b). 'but she has never had a day’ I off work through illness ini I six years as an auxiliary | teacher. The trouble began when 1 i she applied for a permanent; [post and had to undergo a medical examination. Doctors, 'found she suffered from; 'chronic laryngitis and an un-| satisfactory “height-to-weight ratio.” Citing her “physical inapti-, ' tude” for the job, the local.' [education authority dismissed’ I her.
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Press, 24 February 1977, Page 6
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