Headteacher sacked over long list of awful comments to his staff

A headshot of headteacher Paul Scott.
Paul Scott was discovered to have made merciless remarks about each employees and college students (Image: Linkedin)

A former headteacher who known as lecturers the ‘blonde one’ and ‘the gorgeous one who had the newborn’ has been banned from school rooms.

Paul Scott, 54, usually made feminine lecturers at Arboretum Major in Derby, Derbyshire, really feel like ‘items of meat’ resulting from his feedback.

And this ‘derogatory’ remedy even included pupils, educating regulators heard at a tribunal listening to final month.

Among the many alleged feedback – and there have been many – he mentioned a staffer was ‘on the spectrum bus’, one was a ‘virgin’ and referred to a different because the ‘good trying one’.

He as soon as allegedly instructed a colleague vying for a pay rise: ‘Seeing you in your underwear can be a very good begin.’

‘You’ve actually let your self go since you bought married,’ he instructed one other educator, in response to a Educating Regulation Company report launched as we speak.

To a colleague who instructed him she was occurring maternity depart early to bear a caesarean, he replied: ‘Not less than downstairs can be intact.’

Headteacher banned
He has been head of Arboretum Major since 2006 (Image: Google Maps)

Educating regulators discovered the wave of feedback unacceptable, with a disciplinary listening to in Coventry axing him from the job altogether.

A employees member instructed the panel: ‘I bear in mind one time once I had a T-shirt and an identical cardigan on, and Mr Scott was taking a look at it and mentioned, “I like the best way you’ve acquired the vertical stripes”.

‘I felt like a chunk of meat.’

One other mentioned: ‘Sooner or later I used to be carrying dinosaur footage and Mr Scott was trying so I mentioned, “What's it? What are you taking a look at?”.

‘He mentioned one thing like. “I’m distracted, you will have footage of dinosaurs in your breasts”. I simply left after he mentioned this.’

A 3rd instructor recalled how she was holding guinea pigs as Scott commented: ‘They’re a pleasant pair of guinea pigs. I’d like to present them a squeeze.’

He made the remark as he entered the classroom to seek out the instructor in a bunch circle, a witness claimed per the report.

Many employees members alleged Scott made ‘inappropriate bodily contact’ with them, akin to ‘flicking’ their bottoms along with his ID badge.

He additionally ‘brushed [a staff member’s] cheek’ earlier than eradicating a ‘piece of hair that had caught to her lip’, the report mentioned.

Panellists heard how he mentioned a scholar was ‘a bit mad’ in entrance of them and their dad and mom and likewise mentioned ‘I’m used to educating white middle-class youngsters which are like sponges’ after he taught a lower-ability class.

The Educating Regulation Company discovered Scott, who turned head in 2016, responsible of creating inappropriate feedback and bodily contact with employees members.

Panellists concluded he sexually harassed one girl.

The listening to came about after he was suspended following a raft of complaints to highschool governors in April 2019 by employees.

Panel chair Roger Woods mentioned: ‘The panel’s findings in opposition to Mr Scott concerned inappropriate feedback and behavior of an inappropriate, unprofessional and derogatory nature in relation to numerous employees members but in addition, in some situations pupils.’

Scott can be banned from educating in faculties and sixth type faculties in England indefinitely. He can be unable to reapply to be on the educating register, which educators should be on, till November 2024.

As a faculty chief, Scott was a ‘function mannequin’ for his employees and college students, Woods mentioned – but the excessive customary he as soon as set was soured by his catalogue of feedback.

‘He should have identified what was anticipated of him and carried out himself accordingly,’ Woods mentioned.

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