A female teacher who was sacked for letting pupils as young as 15 pose topless and simulate masturbation for a school project has defended it as ‘art’ and claimed she is a victim of a ‘deep injustice’.
Emma Wright, 41, has been banned from teaching indefinitely after allowing students at Huxlow Science College in Northamptonshire to take partially naked photos of themselves and others for a ‘highly inappropriate’ school art project.
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) ruled that the class, which also included pupils holding cigarettes and alcohol, had broken safeguarding rules and ordered Mrs Wright to be struck off.
But she today complained to Government officials and said she will never return to teaching.
She told The Sun: ‘I feel there is a deep injustice about it, but I am not going to appeal because I no longer wish to teach. I have written to my MP, the union and the Education Minister regarding this.
‘I am a good person. I am not the person they are making out to be. I really feel very strongly about it. I am really quite upset about it. It is a position I never thought I would be in.
‘Those students were wonderful students. I have no bad feelings towards those students at all.’
Mrs Wright was reported to the TRA in 2018 after the portfolio of teenagers’ work was found by the school’s head of art and design.
But she accused the watchdog of having ‘no understanding of art and education’.
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