A teacher has been banned indefinitely after telling a female student that it was “good that it was a non-school uniform” because people could see that she was “beautiful”.
Carl Smith, who was the head of computing at Warner School in Banbury, was also privately messed up outside the school.
She also gave her personal contact details like her WhatsApp number, despite knowing that she was insecure.
Many of these messages were sent out of term time and out of 11 pm, and they were involved to discuss the difficulties in school.
In a message, he told a student, who was only nominated by the name of Pupil B, that he had put the chocolate behind for him, told him: “Begging for food and not really earning them by flapping his eyelids.”
He said: “You are very good, so it works in your favor …. maybe I am just a sucking for a beautiful face.”
He was embraced another pupil in a separate incident.
In November 2022, he was first concerned about Mr. Smith by an effigy, and was suspended after the school started an investigation and the case was sent to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA).
Regarding Pupil B, Mr. Smith told the panel: “I can’t remember the exact events that I was given my personal email address, but I remember that I needed to vent about school policy and I did not want to do so on the school email system.”
After contacting him in November 2022, he asked him to remove his conversation after contacting him that he could get into trouble for messages.
Another student told the school investigation that he was called “beautiful” after his comment “scary” and felt “more than a general praise to come from a teacher”.
The decision of the TRA panel found that Mr. Smith’s actions “had several hallmarks in the initial stages of pursuing inappropriate sex with students”.
He has now been banned from teaching indefinitely, with the decision: “The panel admitted that Mr. Smith’s conduct was not modest in nature, or only a temporary lapse. It was a continuous course of action.”
Due to the severity of his behavior, he would not be entitled to apply for the restoration of his eligibility to teach, the panel said.
The former teacher said in a statement to the panel, “Even though I was not in my right mind at that time, it was still wrong and should never have been.”
“I all regret my part in depth, not just because it has destroyed me mentally, but due to the effect that my actions have affected young people.”
