A teacher was fired for allegedly allowed 15-yr-old students to pose topless for photos in class, holding alcohol bottles and smoking in swimsuits.
The UK’s Education Regulatory Agency (TRA) ruled that art teacher Emma Wright’s behaviour was “highly inappropriate” as she violated safeguarding rules.
In photos from a school in Northamptonshire, young female students cover their breasts with their hands.
The images were discovered by the school’s director of arts and design and Ms. Wright, 41, was later reported to the TRA.
Ms. Wright suggested to the panel that she had introduced the students to a new artist who produced “suggestive work” but she never asked the students to reproduce this work, according to The Sun.
But the art teacher went on to say that she should have warned the students that her work was inappropriate, even though she believed the artist’s work was not sexual in nature.
Ms. Wright is no longer allowed to teach, although she has worked at the school since 2004.
According to the Metro, decision maker on the panel Alan Meyrick said: ‘Whilst the panel was satisfied that there was a low risk of repetition, it did not find that Mrs Wright had fully reflected on the safeguarding implications of allowing pupils to take photographs of themselves or others in a state of undress.
‘The risk of harm, due to the lack of safeguarding pupils, was a significant factor in forming that opinion.
‘In my view, it is necessary to impose a prohibition order in order to maintain public confidence in the profession.’
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