‘Sock in gob’ Sir is barred

A TEACHER who took off his sock and put it in a pupil’s mouth has been banned from classrooms.

Martin Myers, 47, also cheated in SATS and asked pupils to vote on whether he should lose his job, a disciplinary panel heard.

A National College for Teaching and Leadership hearing took evidence from two pupils.

One said Myers asked him to “shut up” because he had been talking during a reading lesson.

The panel said: “Pupil A went on to say that after a further warning, Mr Myers took off his shoe and his sock and then put his sock in Pupil A’s mouth.

“Pupil A interpreted Mr Myers’ intention as humorous, but he admitted he felt embarrassed.”

Myers claimed he had thrown his sock across the room and had told Pupil A to “put a sock in it”.

It was also claimed that while taking pupils through a mental maths paper, he read out the questions and then whispered the answers.

Myers, who taught at Ecton primary school in Northampton from September 2010, denied all the allegations but did not attend the hearing and was not represented.

The panel, sitting in Coventry, banned him from teaching indefinitely but the ban could be overturned in five years. A 34-YEAR-old Ford Fiesta – with 12,900 miles on the clock after being kept in a garage since 2006 – will be auctioned at Brightwells in Hereford.