Teacher struck off after swearing at pupils and boasting about sex life
A teacher has been struck off for swearing at pupils and bragging about her sex life.
English teacher Julia Wheeler swore at schoolchildren and told them about her "friends with benefits" relationships.
A fitness to practice hearing was told that Wheeler wrote "b***h" next to one pupil's name on a mark sheet - and even circled the word.
Assistant headteacher Catherine Tobin said concerns about Wheeler were raised at Pencoed Comprehensive School in Bridgend, South Wales, when 10 schoolchildren made statements against her.
Students claimed the 40-year-old called them "d***heads", "b*****ds", and "f*****g b******s", at Pencoed Comprehensive School in Bridgend, South Wales.
They also said she "shouted in their faces" at the school and "pushed chairs onto the floor" in the classroom.
One pupil said Wheeler reduced them to tears saying: "She once shouted at me so much I cried."
The Education Workforce Council panel heard Wheeler started teaching at the school in September 2020 but complaints were made just eight months later.
Tobin said pupils claimed Wheeler told them about a personal relationship which she described as "friends with benefits."
They said she also referred to another member of staff as a "d***head" during a series of inappropriate comments between January and May 2021.
Tobin told the hearing she had interviewed most of the pupils and that the allegations were "the first time she had heard anything like it" in her 30 years in education.
Tobin was also made aware of a mark sheet used by the school's management to track pupils' progress which included Wheeler's writing.
She said that written next to one pupil's name was the word "b***h" with a circle around it.
Tobin said: "In no way would I anticipate anybody to refer to a learner by that term. It was wholly inappropriate."
The hearing was told Wheeler said the mark sheet was "never intended" to go any further than her and the colleague who gave it to her.
She was sent a letter that a disciplinary meeting was to take place in July 2021 - but an agreement was made to end her employment in February the following year.
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Presenting officer Sara Lewis said Wheeler's conduct had negatively affected pupils and there had been "no expression of genuine regret."
Wheeler denied all allegations of unacceptable professional conduct by using inappropriate or derogatory behaviour towards pupils.
Panel chair Steve Powell said Wheeler's belief was that the allegations were a "witch hunt" to "get her out."
He said her behaviour had shown a "deliberate and reckless disregard" for pupils and colleagues and had had a "direct impact on some pupils".
Wheeler has been banned from teaching for two years following the Cardiff hearing.
