A GLASGOW teacher who said a pupil “likes to sit and w***” in the presence of youngsters at a complex needs school has been struck off.

Fiona McDougall worked at Linburn Academy in Cardonald which accommodates secondary-aged young people with “profound and complex learning difficulties”.

The educator admitted to using vulgar language in reference to and in front of pupils, stating one child “just likes to sit and w***”, and failed to follow protocol when moving a child from a wheelchair to a side layer – instead manually lifting the boy when a two-person hoist was required.

A placement student teacher was then asked to make sure no one was around to witness the moving of the pupil.

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Upon investigation by Glasgow City Council, the teacher told authorities they had followed the protocol in lifting the pupil when this wasn’t the case.

She was also found to have strapped a child into a wheelchair.

The teacher also failed to react to two other staff, known only as colleagues A and B, when they swore, made sexually explicit comments, shouted and shoved two pupils in her presence.

Ms McDougall didn’t react when the same colleagues made a pupil stand up and called him “disgusting” or words to that effect.

The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) said the incidents, which occurred between December 2016 and January 2017, demonstrate a lack of integrity and dishonesty.

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A hearing by the GTCS found: “The teacher was responsible for vulnerable pupils and was in a position of trust but had allowed pupils to be degraded and put at risk of harm and had been dishonest. The panel agreed that the public would perceive the teacher’s conduct as being very serious.

“The panel considered that the conduct was remediable, but that it had not been remedied and that there was a risk of reoccurrence. As such, the teacher’s fitness to teach was impaired.

"The panel then moved to consider the extent to which the teacher has fallen short of the standards. The critical question for the panel was: has the teacher fallen significantly short of the standards expected, meaning she is unfit to teach?

“The panel was of the view that there was an overriding public interest in a finding that the teacher was unfit to teach, in order to protect children and young people, and to maintain public confidence in the teaching profession and GTCS as a professional regulator.

"It also considered that the deterrent effect its decision may have upon other registrants was important.”