A secondary school teacher has been fired after letting female students take topless photos for an art project.
Emma Wright, 41, was working as an art teacher at Huxlow Science College in Northamptonshire, England, in 2017 when the classroom photoshoot took place.
According to The Sun, Wright let girls as young as 15 take “partially nude” photos of themselves and other students.
In some photos, students reportedly used liquor bottles and their hands to cover their breasts. In other footage, the girls allegedly made offensive gestures while smoking and wearing their school uniforms.
The Sun claims a shocking snap even saw one of the girls ‘posing with their hand inside their underwear or in a pose that simulated masturbation’.
Wright blasted his dismissal as an “injustice”, telling The Sun: “I’m a good person. I’m not the person they claim I am.
She added that the Education Regulatory Agency – which removed her from the teacher register for two years – “didn’t understand the art in education”.
Wright was first reported to the TRA after her school’s head of design discovered a student’s art portfolio containing the potentially problematic images.
An agency investigation found that Wright had a “good history education” at Huxlow Science College, where she had worked since 2004.
However, they deemed the photo shoot “very inappropriate”.
“While the panel was satisfied there was a low risk of repetition, it did not find that Ms Wright had fully considered the implications for safeguarding of allowing pupils to take pictures of themselves- themselves or others in a state of undress,” the agency wrote. in their report.
They banned Wright from teaching at any school for two years.
However, they deemed the photo shoot “very inappropriate”.
However, the art teacher has retaliated and never wants to enter a classroom again – claiming she was deformed by TRA.
“I feel there is a deep injustice about this, but I’m not going to appeal because I no longer wish to teach,” Wright told The Sun, saying she is now employed at a nursing home. “I wrote to my MP [local political representative]the union and the Minister of Education on this subject.
“I feel it really, really badly. I’m really, really upset about it. It’s a position I never thought I’d be in,” she added.
Wright told the publication she had no ill will towards the students, describing them as “wonderful.”
“I hope the local community is as shocked as I am, and as sad and angry,” she said. “They know me. I taught at this school for a long time.
