An it instructor who threatened students and took a few to a strip club while he turned into drunk for the duration of a school experience has been banned from practicing for three years. Richard glenn’s behaviour was so “unacceptable” man was sent home early all through longridge towers college’s experience to costa rica in july 2019, the coaching regulation corporation heard.
Mr glenn, fifty five, admitted gross misconduct and become disregarded in august 2019.
The northumberland non-public school expenses up to £4,850 a term for day pupils. It introduced there was “no malice or sexual reason” in taking the students to the lapdancing club, but mr glenn admitted it turned into “inappropriate and unprofessional” for him to fail to control the state of affairs.
He added he could not consider what happened “due to his country of intoxication” but he “did now not dispute the recollection of those gift”, the report said. The panel became shown images of drink tickets sold on the strip club and said it changed into “satisfied” that his behavior “amounted to misconduct of a critical nature which fell appreciably short of the standards anticipated of the career”.
The panel’s file said: “mr glenn turned into, at various times for the duration of the school journey, underneath the influence of alcohol, and therefore no longer in a role to safely take choices or act in loco parentis need to the want stand up.
“this turned into in situations where students underneath his care were in an surprising us of a, a long way from home, and counting on him for steering and protection. “mr glenn turned into an experienced teacher and pastoral chief who might were expected to guide an distant places ride competently, and might have been well aware about the behavior predicted of him.” After the three years have passed, mr glenn dispensation need to apply for the ban to be raised, the panel said.