ROGUE teachers are being thrown out of English classrooms in record numbers – almost FOUR a week are being expelled for disgraceful behaviour.
New figures reveal a grim catalog of shame, including school staff banned for having sex with students, sending nude photos and binge drinking while on duty.
A Sun on Sunday audit shows how 191 teachers were excluded from the profession in the past year.
That is the highest figure ever recorded – and more than three times higher than the 63 banned five years earlier.
On average, as many as sixteen teachers are now blacklisted every month – or one every other day.
Among those kicked out are school gentlemen who put students to bed and teachers who sent nude photos to children.
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Others were dismissed for fiddling with exam results, showing up to class drunk and even watching porn on school computers.
More than 400 pupils have been denied access to classrooms in England and Wales over the past four years.
A pedophile teacher who had sex with two pupils, including one with whom she had a baby, will be suspended after being found guilty of misconduct in December.
Rebecca Joynes, 30, began a relationship with the boys after preying on them while they were in her maths class at school.
She groomed a 15-year-old boy in a Gucci belt before sleeping with him twice in her Salford flat.
The predator also had sex with a 16-year-old boy 30 times before bailing on a baby.
In another shocking case, a married vice-principal of a girls’ school was banned after a secret two-year affair with a colleague.
Liyarna Beamish, 39, and art teacher Gareth Collins, 45, romped while pupils from Ribston Hall High School in Gloucestershire were nearby.
When married Ms Beamish was questioned by school leaders, she confessed how the couple regularly had sex in Mr Collins’ art room and in two cupboards with the “doors locked”.
Father-of-two Mr Collins, a teacher of 18 years, admitted having sex with Ms Beamish ‘sporadically’ over a ‘couple of years’ in his class.
Both were dismissed and suspended for unacceptable professional conduct.
Another teacher, Benjamin Hiscox, 34, was banned for life after asking a former student to take her school uniform to a hotel before having sex with her.
The girl studied at a university where Hiscox trained as a teacher.
No criminal charges were laid, but Hiscox, who offered to buy the girl a sex toy, was banned for unacceptable professional conduct.
Another primary teacher was so drunk at work that she staggered to the meeting and was unable to present a student award – having been jailed for drink driving only a few months ago.
Ashley Atkin, 38, was just a few weeks into her new job at Horn’s Mill Primary School in Helsby, Cheshire, when colleagues noticed she smelled of alcohol.
The Grade 1 teacher “looked dazed; as she walked her class into the school hall for the star of the week assembly.
Instead of leading her children as expected, she walked away and sat on a chair far away from her classroom.
When it came time to present the school’s weekly Big Cheese prize to a star student, she whispered to a colleague to ask who the recipient was before handing over the certificate, refusing to announce the winner herself.
An analysis of misconduct hearings shows that the number of teachers banned from school has increased year on year.
In 2023-2024, 157 teachers were banned. The year before, 137 were evicted, while in 2021-2022 it was 108.
Even during the Covid-affected year of 2020-2021, when schools were partially closed, 39 teachers were still cut.
As many as 1,094 teachers have been banned from the classroom in the past decade.
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA), which oversees the profession, admits that the most common reasons for a ban are sexual misconduct and viewing or sharing illegal indecent images.
In one of the most damning recent cases, a deputy headmaster who seduced a sixth form student managed to avoid justice for almost a decade after his prestigious all-girls school quietly allowed him to resign.
Philip Culling, 52, was director of music at the posh Godolphin and Latymer School in west London – whose former pupils included Nigella Lawson and Davina McCall – when he began an affair with a teenager.
Despite being married with three children, Culling had a series of sexual encounters with the student – including intimate liaisons in his office and a closet date that was interrupted by a lady eating dinner.
His affair with the 19-year-old is said to have been an ‘open secret’ among staff at the elite private school.
Yet Culling was allowed to quietly resign in 2014 and continued in teaching before finally being barred from the teaching profession in June.
Meanwhile, drama teacher Megan Lanning, 36, was teaching music and performing arts at Ripplevale School in Rochester, Kent, when she sent two filthy images to a student.
Other teachers have been suspended for falsifying exam results and teaching courses to students, although many have been kicked out for binge drinking.
Primary school principal Leanne Grove, 44, was caught when staff found a load of drinks in cupboards and containers in her office at Hazeldene School in Bedford.
And a special education teacher was punished after secretly working as an OnlyFans model.
Leanne Wilson, 41, was exposed when shocked colleagues at Holbrook School for Autism, near Belper, Derbyshire, came across her racy online alter ego.
Wilson used the adult platform to advertise explicit photos and videos, penis review services and the ability for subscribers to “control” her vibrator.
The TRA’s annual report shows that the watchdog is inundated with complaints.
In the 2024-2025 period alone, it received 1,854 misconduct referrals – which equates to more than five per day.
While some cases were dismissed for not meeting the threshold, 912 serious misconduct investigations were launched.
A prohibition order is the ultimate punishment for the profession. It prohibits a teacher from working in a school, sixth form college, children’s home or youth accommodation in England.
A spokesperson for the TRA said: “The primary purpose of a banning order is to protect students, maintain public confidence in the teaching profession and support schools in maintaining good standards of behaviour.”
Former teacher Abi Twomlow, now an anxiety psychologist, said: “The vast majority of teachers understand their responsibility to protect children and act in their best interests.
“Schools are built on trust, and they must remain places of absolute safety. Where that trust is abused, it is right that individuals are quickly identified, removed from the profession, prosecuted and prevented from ever working with children again.
“However, a strong safety culture does not depend solely on awareness or policy. It depends on whether staff feel safe to raise concerns. Teachers are often the first to notice subtle changes in behavior or dynamics, but concerns should be shared early and without fear of judgment or retaliation, especially if it concerns another staff member.
“Creating environments where staff feel supported to speak out is an area that still requires continued attention. Safeguarding depends not just on systems, but on a culture where concerns are shared early and acted upon without hesitation.”
Ria Culley, a former teaching assistant who campaigns for better protection in schools and nurseries, said: “The increasing number of teachers and those working in the school environment being excluded for misconduct is a huge wake-up call and cause for great concern.
“When families send their children to school, they expect them to be safe. There should be no room for bad apples in our schools.”
“While the vast majority of teachers help our children learn, grow and thrive, it is disturbing that more and more children are being banned.
“What we don’t know is whether these numbers are rising as a result of greater vigilance in schools to root out misconduct, or whether more unsuitable teachers are being recruited into our classrooms.”
A Department for Education spokesperson said: “The Teaching Regulation Agency continues to play an important and crucial role in ensuring that claims of serious misconduct by teachers are thoroughly investigated.
“Extensive steps have already been taken to increase capacity to ensure the timely conclusion of cases, which has led to a record number of misconduct hearings over the past year, and to reduce the time it takes to conclude cases.”
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