A teacher Was prohibited from the classroom after having set up a group conversation with former students to discuss the students “the most beautiful” of the school.
Antony Jones, 59, taught science at the Humphry Davy school Penzance,, CornwallWhen he created a Facebook Messenger Group discusses with an old 11th year physics lesson.
An educational regulatory agency (TRA) court I heard that Mr. Jones created the group cat with students who had left school in 2019. In this group cat, he sent a message asking the former students: “So who was the most beautiful girl of your year?”.
He then voted in a survey created by one of the students, choosing a former student with whom he had exchanged several messages in a “sexually motivated”, revealed the panel.
He had asked the student, known as student B, to send photos of herself and send several inappropriate messages, in particular: “You are so photogenic!”
The 59 -year -old also offered to release the 16 -year -old student for lunch and coffee.
In this group cat, Mr. Jones also joined a joke on a former student measuring the size of his penis, according to the panel.
The panel also found that the science teacher told a student that he was “good to guess the sizes” of the female breasts, as well as asking him questions about his personal life and “novels in class”. The panel also found that he had tightened another student, known as the student C.
He also asked a student, called a student A, to “spend time with your least favorite teacher in an ad doing mathematics? … drinks on me”.
The panel has concluded all the evidence that Mr. Jones has a “penchant” for pupil B had led him to attract by it.
The TRA declared that he was pursuing “the distant perspective of a future sexual relation” and, therefore, concluded that his actions towards the student B were sexually motivated.
About voting in the survey, Mr. Jones suggested that asking who was the most beautiful was not necessarily the same as asking who was the most sexually attractive.
However, the panel concluded that the survey was not solely focused on aesthetics, but involved an element of sexual attractiveness.
The TRA also noted that in the group cat, Mr. Jones “engaged in sexual jokes and comments on another pupil of their year, as well as another teacher”.
In attenuation, the panel found: “Mr. Jones had admissions to a number of allegations against him and expressed sincere apologies and remorse for any pain he had caused to anyone by his conduct.
“He had shown an overview of the bad decision that led to allegations against him.
“However, the panel remained from the opinion that when he testified, Mr. Jones had not shown a complete overview of his conduct or had given enough assurance that he would not be repeated if he finds himself in a situation similar to the future.”
Mr. Jones was indefinitely prohibited from teaching in any school, sixth -form college, accommodation for relevant young people or children’s houses in England.