A former teacher at Brine Leas School in Nantwich admitted “unprofessional conduct” by having sex with one pupil and wishing another “dies from a brain haemorrhage”.
Dan Boulton has been banned indefinitely from teaching in the UK after being found guilty of “unacceptable professional conduct and/or conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute”.
He admitted to the Teaching Regulation Agency that between March and December 2015, he engaged in a sexual relationship with a pupil during the academic year 2014-15.
Mr Boulton, 56, who started at the school in 2003, also admitted that in or around February 2018 he made a comment to a group of pupils that in effect said “bisexual people are just greedy”.
And in May 2018, he told a fellow teacher referring to a pupil “I f****** hate her, I hope she dies of a brain haemorrhage”.
A TRA report, published this week, states: “Mr Boulton admitted the facts and that his behaviour amounted to unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute falling short of the standards of behaviour expected of a teacher.”
The first complaint about his sexual activity with a pupil was made via an anonymous call to the school in June 2018, the report states.
Police were informed and a disciplinary hearing held. He ceased employment at Brine Leas on October 4, 2018.
The report says the sexual activity with a Sixth Form pupil began in December 2014 and ended around a year later.
The pupil did not make a complaint but was interviewed by Cheshire Police, the report adds.
Mr Boulton made the statement about bisexual people in a PSHE lesson in February of 2018.
The panel agreed that each allegation amounted to “unacceptable professional conduct”.
In summary, the panel said: “Mr Dan Boulton is prohibited from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England.
“Furthermore, in view of the seriousness of the allegations found proved against him, I have decided that Mr Boulton shall not be entitled to apply for restoration of his eligibility to teach.
“This order takes effect from the date on which it is served on the teacher.
“Mr Boulton has a right of appeal to the King’s Bench Division of the High Court within 28 days from the date he is given notice of this order.”
In a statement issued today, David Cole, headteacher of Brine Leas School, said: “When this serious matter came to light we immediately suspended the teacher in question and carried out a thorough investigation. This resulted in the teacher being dismissed.
“The safeguarding of our pupils’ wellbeing and welfare is our paramount priority and we welcome the decision of the TRA misconduct hearing.”
Wolf star explain what you mean, as they are real words you have stated but they don’t make any sense
Not cool to comment on here with vague information it’s rather dull reading
Dan? Is that you? Stop it Dan. It’s embarrassing
Maybe your jokes aren’t funny? Ever considered that? Also, what kind of idiot wishes actual physical harm on someone? If you and your friend think this is normal it says a lot about you, and none of its good.
Also both things can be true, Dan Boulton can be a perverted sexual predator, manipulating children he is supposed to care about and your friends have experienced a similar crime. Maybe you should go to the police and file a report instead of defending a deviant on here. Idiot.
At my high school in the 1980s there was an English teacher in his 30s who had a relationship with a sixth-former. They married and had kids and are still together now 40 years later and are valued members of the local community.
How on earth can you genuinely think that a 50+ year old man having a relationship with an 18 year old girl (if she was 18 which we don’t actually know) is in any way acceptable.
Regardless of whether or not she was over the age of consent, what happened here was a man in a position of power clearly taking advantage of someone who was more than likely only a few months older than when she would legally have been considered a child.
From the tone of your comment I’m sure if you had an 18 year old daughter, and she brought home her new 50+ year old boyfriend, you’d obviously be fine with it.
“Bisexual people are just greedy” is what is known as a joke, I and my other gay friends say things like that all the time. It is not an offensive or discriminatory remark and clearly not serious. His other remark about wishing a pupil would drop dead was made in a private conversation and is also the sort of thing we’ve all said about someone at one time or another. His relationship with the girl was obviously ill-advised but was clearly consenting and she was above the age of consent.
In my Cheshire town alone there were three former boarding/residential schools where boys suffered extreme physical, emotional and sexual abuse (up to and including rape) over a period of decades and the perpetrators got off scot free. I have friends who were sexually abused by schoolteachers who have never seen justice. Having tolerated extreme abuse for decades and brushed it under the carpet it seems now we have swung to the other extreme and descended into a moral panic of overreaction. How about we start persecuting (and prosecuting) the right people?