A Christian teacher of nearly three decades is taking her former school to an employment tribunal after she was fired for answering students' direct questions — telling them, among other things, that she is pro-life because of her faith. The case has been taken up by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), according to Protestia.

Anita Meston, 63, was hired by Biddick Academy in the United Kingdom in 2024. The incident at the center of the dispute took place during a Year 8 history lesson — pupils aged 12 to 13 — focused on the bombing of Dresden in World War II. During the lesson, Meston asked whether similar moral questions surrounded the present-day conflict in Palestine.

When a student put the question to her, Meston said she was pro-Israel but lamented the deaths of innocent people in Gaza. Later in the same lesson, a different student asked whether she was "pro-abortion." She answered that she was "pro-life."

Pressed to explain her position, Meston told the class she held that view because she is a Christian, and that she knew women who had had abortions and regretted the decision. When one student responded that she knew women who had abortions and did not regret them, Meston answered, "fair enough," and redirected the class back to the lesson at hand.

The next day she was called to a meeting with the school's principal, who informed her that a complaint had been lodged against her. When she explained that she had only answered direct questions and had quickly steered the discussion back to the topic, she was told she was being terminated for "sharing personal opinions on political issues with pupils," on the grounds that doing so would cause them "harm or distress."

Meston rejects that account. In a statement, she said she was "profoundly shocked" by the dismissal, insisting she does not believe a teacher should impose unrelated beliefs on a class — she merely acknowledged her students' questions, answered truthfully, and moved on. She called what happened to her "nothing short of censorship" and warned that "this precedent cannot be allowed to stand."

The article reports no public response from the school to the claims. Meston's case is set for a preliminary hearing before the Employment Tribunal on October 16, 2026, with ADF representing her.

For Christians, the details matter. The question before the tribunal will not be whether anyone was offended, but whether a teacher can be fired for giving honest, brief answers to questions her students asked — answers rooted in a faith millions hold. The distinction between imposing beliefs and answering for them is the heart of this case, and of every workplace case like it.