Naked romp music teacher struck off
Woman took advantage of two teenagers
A music teacher who was spotted lying naked on top of a pupil has been struck off.
Elizabeth Smillie, 37, formed inappropriate relationships with two vulnerable female pupils while she taught in Renfrewshire.
The General Teaching Council for Scotland banned Smillie from the classroom this week after a hearing was told she took advantage of the teenagers.
One of the pupils – who was aged just 15 at the time – said Smillie gave her her phone number and added her on social media sites.
It emerged that she would pick the girl up and buy her booze and cigarettes. The relationship ended when she tried to kiss the girl, who raised the alarm to her aunt.
The frightened youngster was also forced to change her phone number and remove her Facebook page.
The hearing was told that Smillie formed a sexual relationship with a 17 year-old girl.
Another pupil also spotted them lying naked together in a bed and they were also observed kissing and holding hands at Blair Drummond Safari Park.
This week the GTCS announced that Smillie would be removed from the teaching register over her conduct.
A statement said: “The panel were satisfied that the teacher’s relationship with each pupil was at the relevant time an inappropriate relationship.
“The context of the relationship, the nature, timing and volume of communication and the nature, timing and volume of contact established that the relationships were inappropriate.
“The specific conduct referred to in each part of the allegation was not conduct that was consistent with a normal pupil/ teacher relationship.
“An aggravating feature was that both pupils were vulnerable at the relevant time at her flat.
“In particular, the panel found similar behaviour in forming relationships with vulnerable pupils who had suffered recent bereavement and in the detail of the particular conduct involved thereafter.”
Ms Smillie did not attend the hearing but did arrange for a representative to deny the allegations.
The allegations against Ms Smillie were in relation to her relationship with a 15- year- old whilst employed by Renfrewshire Council during the 2010/ 2011 school session.
A second charge relates to the teachers sexually inappropriate relationship with a 17- year- old pupil during 2011/ 2012 whilst employed by the same council.
She was also accused of forming inappropriate communications with another two pupils between July 2012 and March 2013 using Facebook and texting.
The GTCS removed Smillie from the register stating that the allegations found proved amounted to misconduct.
They said: “The teacher had not engaged with the hearing and that there was an absence of evidence of insight, remorse and remediation.
“The allegations were at the more serious end of the range of allegations that Fitness to Teach Panels deal with. They involved the abuse of a position of trust of vulnerable pupils.
“One of the pupils was under 16 years of age when the teacher initiated the relationship. Further, the allegations demonstrated a pattern of behaviour by the teacher which indicated that there was a risk of reocurrence.”