Disgraced instructor banned from classroom after he despatched express messages to pupil
A disgraced secondary college instructor has been banned from the classroom for 2 years after sending a 17-year-old lady express messages, sexualising her in entrance of youthful pupils and matching together with her on a courting app. Alexander Lamont was working at a South Lanarkshire Council college between August 2018 and February 2019 when greater than 50 incidents occurred. Claims towards him had been discovered confirmed final week by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS).
Lamont, an English instructor, was discovered to have behaved inappropriately in direction of the scholar, often known as Pupil A to guard her identification.
The instructor publicly sexualised {the teenager} in entrance of pupils as younger as 12 and 13, and quizzed her on her sexual experiences in entrance of a category.
On one event, Mr Lamont referred to the teenager as “glamorous and beautiful” in entrance of S2 pupils. He was additionally discovered to have unnecessarily touched her on the neck, shoulders and elbow in the course of the lesson.
On different events, he additionally requested {the teenager} in entrance of youthful pupils whether or not she had a boyfriend. He additionally informed her they need to “go for drinks” when she left college.
In September 2018, when an S2 pupil steered it could be inappropriate for the instructor and the lady to enter a relationship, Mr Lamont mentioned “there isn’t that much of an age gap between us and Pupil A is very mature for her age”.
He additionally gave her his private electronic mail handle and despatched more and more inappropriate messages, calling her, amongst different issues, a “tease”.
In one, he mentioned: “I’m implying that I can’t remember if you said you’re 17 or 18…but you’re still an innocent wee thing regardless.”
The creepy instructor appeared to know he was exchanging inappropriate messages with the lady, as in a single electronic mail he wrote: “Jesus I am SO deleting these emails after tonight, maybe I like frustrating you. And maybe I’ll tell you if you promise to delete the emails after too so we don’t get in trouble, 18 or not, this sort of conversation is definitely against the rules.”
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The GTCS report confirmed the pair started emailing in October 2018.
He proceeded to ship the pupil sexually express messages, pictures and movies of himself on the social media platform Snapchat, together with telling he needed to make her “scream daddy”.
In February 2019, the instructor matched with the lady on courting app Bumble, sending her messages reminiscent of “not long now till you’re a big girl”.
When the pupil informed Mr Lamont he had damage her and raised considerations that he was utilizing her, he responded saying: “Not f*****g this again”.
Mr Lamont informed her nobody would imagine her if she spoke up about them, including: “How would your mum feel if she found out about her perfect little princess?”
The report into Mr Lamont discovered he had given out his electronic mail to different pupils within the fifth 12 months.
The GTCS decided the instructor’s behaviour was on the “high end of misconduct” and there was a “lack of evidence” of perception or remediation.
It decided the instructor could be struck off from the instructing register for 2 years earlier than he may apply to develop into an educator as soon as once more.