An art teacher has been banned from the profession indefinitely after letting pupils as young as 15 pose topless as part of a school art project.
Emma Wright, 41, was sacked after a panel found that her behaviour “amounted to misconduct of a serious nature which fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession”. Photographs taken as part of the project included pupils wearing underwear, posing with their hands covering their breasts, simulating masturbation, and holding cigarettes or alcohol containers.
Wright, who worked at Huxlow Science College in Northamptonshire, was reported to the Teaching Regulation Agency by the department head in 2018 after they discovered the pupils’ portfolios of work. Wright was struck off after the TRA decided that she had broken safeguarding rules, a decision for which she will not be able to apply for a review until 2024, the Daily Star reports .
