A Glasgow teacher has been struck off from the register after mocking and being physically aggressive towards pupils.
Derek Leslie worked as a principal teacher at Greenview School for children with additional needs prior to its closure.
The school was an additional support needs school for children whose barrier to learning is their social, emotional and behavioural needs. It closed in June 2020.
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Mr Leslie admitted to some of the allegations against him, including drinking a pupil's carton of milk, messing with another pupil's draught pieces and responding to pupils with inappropriate language, saying: "I'm not a baldy c*t" and "I'm not a "baldy b****d."
However, the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) found several other allegations against him to be proven.
This included telling people "no wonder you do not go mainstream" as well as telling pupils "you will not amount to anything – look you are still here in this school, you will never get out of here".
The panel's decision stated: "The Panel considered this highly inappropriate as they heightened the vulnerability of pupils by stating that they were not good enough for mainstream school, thereby denigrating pupils."
Mr Leslie was also found to have "grabbed Pupil L by the T-shirt, drag him back into the class in an aggressive manner and throw him to the side" as well as holding him on the floor by his wrists. He also screamed "you need to calm down" at him when the pupil upturned a chair.
The panel also concluded that "on multiple occasions" Mr Leslie did "roughly handle Pupil J by grabbing and dragging him".
Mr Leslie denied that his fitness to teach was impaired, and stated that he had retired in July 2019 "following a highly fraught number of years".
However, the panel stated: "There was insufficient evidence to satisfy the Panel that the conduct, in this particular case, was remediable and there was little to no evidence to suggest that it had been remedied.
"The Panel considered as a result of the teacher’s retiral, there was a low likelihood of reoccurrence. The Panel noted the teacher’s retirement in 2019 and that he had been firm in his evidence that he would never seek to return to teaching, however this does not preclude him from returning to the profession in the future.
"The Panel considered that in all the circumstances there would be a high likelihood of reoccurrence were this to happen."
The report continued: "Accordingly, for the reasons set out above, the Panel was of the view that the teacher’s conduct falls significantly short of the standards expected of a registered teacher and he is, as a result, unfit to teach."
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