Lanarkshire teacher who called child 'attention seeker with a transgender identity crisis' allowed to stay in profession
dailyrecord.co.ukA Lanarkshire secondary school teacher who told one child "I am not here to wipe your a***" and shouted at pupils has been allowed to stay in the profession.Claire Sweeney was working at Uddingston Grammar School when the incidents involving first-year pupils took place.
A report by the General Teaching Council for Scotland details that on February 21, 2018, the teacher shouted at the first-year pupil, stating that she wasn't "here to wipe your a***".
The same day, she was reported to have referred to a pupil as "an attention seeker with a transgender identity crisis" while in a conversation with the faculty head teacher, reports Glasgow Live.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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