Glasgow Teacher Struck Off After Having Baby With Pupil
A Glasgow secondary school drama teacher was struck from the teaching register after having a baby with a pupil. Teacher B was found unfit to teach after a Fitness to Practice hearing, and the ruling means she cannot return to the profession for two years.
The General Teaching Council case centered on a sexual relationship that ran from December 2019 to an unknown date in 2022, while the teacher gave birth to the pupil’s child in July 2021. The charge was amended to state that Pupil A was aged between 18 and 20, and Teacher B accepted the amended charge.
General Teaching Council ruling
The panel treated the case as serious misconduct and struck Teacher B from the register. She will be allowed to reapply after two years, which keeps the sanction in place long enough to remove her from classroom work and the profession’s formal oversight for a set period.
Teacher B told the General Teaching Council that she was “a different person now” and asked that her past should “not define her future.” She also said she had “not intentionally breached professional standards” and had “not abused her position.”
Conduct with Pupil A
The ruling also recorded that Teacher B admitted travelling alone on public transport with the boy between August 2017 and November 2018, and driving him alone in her car over the same period. Teacher B described that conduct as a “lapse of judgment” and said she “should have maintained clearer boundaries.”
That detail sat alongside the sexual relationship that later followed, creating the disciplinary case the panel had to assess. The amended charge meant the hearing dealt with a pupil who was legally an adult at the lower end of the range cited in the ruling, but the panel still found the relationship and the earlier travel and driving episodes crossed professional boundaries.
Fitness to Practice hearing
The panel said Teacher B showed some genuine remorse, but it found she failed to see the wider context of her misconduct. It said she saw herself as a victim and had no awareness of the impact of her behaviour on Pupil A, the reputation of the profession or public confidence.
For Teacher B, the immediate consequence is removal from the register and a two-year wait before any application to return. For schools in Glasgow and beyond, the case is a direct reminder that the regulator can treat boundary breaches and a pupil relationship as serious enough to end a teacher’s career, even where the teacher later accepts the amended charge.
