1) Technically, he didn't get fired.
"The girl's mother complained but investigations by the police, social services and the Church all cleared Mr Barrett of doing anything wrong.
However, he said the subsequent furore left him with little choice but to resign as chairman of the governors on the advice of the Archdeacon of Lichfield. He had been due to step down later this year."
2) I feel sorry for the girl. Not for being kissed - I see nothing wrong with that, but because she has the ill-fortune of having such an idiotic mother.
"Last night the girl's mother said that more action should have been taken against Mr Barrett.
"I am so disappointed with the way it has been handled and I would like him to be removed from his position," she said.
She has complained to the school's board of governors, Staffordshire education authority, the police and Brian Jenkins, the Labour MP for Tamworth. No one at the William McGregor school wished to comment."