Kharkiv teacher bullied into resignation named Ukraine’s teacher of the year

Bullied by colleagues, a middle school teacher resigned after 13 years at a village school. Just months later, she was named Ukraine’s teacher of the year.

Olga Khalepa, 42, a former biology teacher in village Yakovlivka in eastern Kharkiv Oblast, quit her job in September 2020 after the school’s principal and fellow teachers had bullied her for years, mocking her teaching methods.