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A Teacher Used to be Banned from teaching for life after hitting a student with a ruler,
58 year old Farooq Ahmed given police warning Teaching banned indefinitely after strike An unidentified student at Oasis Academy Lister Park on 24 November 2023 bradford,
He was also found guilty of pushing and kicking the chair on which another student was sitting.
The incident was recorded on CCTV from inside the classroom and was reviewed after the two girl students came forward SchoolAssistant Principal about the attack. It had been less than three months since Mr Ahmed had started teaching at Oasis Academy on September 1 that year.
He was suspended from his role on 27 November.
West Yorkshire Police later gave the experienced teacher a conditional caution for assault by beating, contrary to section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. On the same day, 15 January 2024, he resigned from his role as a teacher at the school.
An investigation by the Teaching Regulation Agency last month found Mr Ahmed “fell well short of the standards expected of the profession.”
The report concluded, “The panel was satisfied that Mr Ahmed’s conduct involved a breach of the responsibilities and duties set out in the statutory guidance ‘Keeping children safe in education’.”
“The panel found that Mr Ahmed’s conduct fell well short of the expected standards of the profession.”
Mr Ahmed denied during the investigation that he hit the student, saying that the ruler he was holding at the time would have “missed” the student’s hand.
But the panel found that CCTV contradicted Mr Ahmed’s claims, which clearly showed that the teacher had made a “deliberate ruler jerk action” towards the student.
The panel’s findings read: “The Panel carefully watched the CCTV footage and noted at the end of the footage that Mr Ahmed delivered a blow to a ruler which appeared to make contact with Pupil B’s arm.
“Shortly before, Mr Ahmed took a ruler from a student sitting nearby. Before this happened, the Panel noted that Mr Ahmed appeared to be in a confrontationally agitated state, in which he was pacing around the classroom, standing unnecessarily close to pupils and demanding school equipment from them.”
Despite a later apology, the panel found that Mr Ahmed posed a significant risk to the teaching profession and barred him from teaching indefinitely. He is entitled to request a review of the prohibition order after two years.