Teacher struck off over lewd remarks

● Mcghee, 51, also asked pupil during class: ‘Are you sure you’re not a terrorist?’

A history teacher who made lewd remarks to pupils and staff at school has been struck off the teaching register.

David Mcghee also asked a “non-caucasian” pupil, “Are you sure you’re not a terrorist?” during a class at Hazlehead Academy in Aberdeen.

Mr Mcghee, who taught religious education, history and modern studies, was working at two schools in the city when he made a string of inappropriate comments between 2011 and 2013.

The teacher, who volunteers at a local church, tried and failed to have his hearing at the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) in Edinburgh held in private last month.

While working at Harlaw Academy, in reference to siblings aged between 14 and 15 years old, Mr Mcghee said: “Every man’s dream, twins. Perhaps it’s every woman’s too?”

The 51-year-old also told a female colleague how pupils kept shouting “Sixty-nine” when he entered his classroom.

At the same school, Mr Mcghee told another female teacher in her classroom how he and his wife had picked up a leaflet for a brothel during a visit to Vienna.

He also told her that during a trip with his wife to Germany a person had directed him to a “pornkino”– believed to mean a porn website.

On another occasion Mr Mcghee told a fourth-year pupil: “It is possible to get an Egyptian down there along the lines of a Brazilian”.

This was in reference to shaving around a bikini line after a pupil made a comment about how another pupil’s haircut made her “look like an Egyptian”.

He also repeated jokes while pupils were around about how David and Victoria Beckham named their son Brooklyn after where he was conceived.

He claimed a comedian had referred to where his own children had been conceived and gave them names including “Hall Stair Carpet” and “Front Room Settee”.

In March 2013, Mr Mcghee, who also volunteers for the Scouts, told one pupil at Hazlehead Academy: “Are you sure you are not a terrorist? That’s all right then, at least you are not putting poison on the door handle.”

The panel, in its written decision, said it was satisfied that the remark was of a racist nature despite Mr Mcghee saying he was merely referencing a 1997 film called Jackal.

Mr Mcghee did not appear at the hearing and was not represented but sent a letter in which he denied all the allegations.

In striking off the teacher, the GTCS panel concluded: “Many of the allegations involved a course of conduct of a sexual nature towards female colleagues.

“The conduct also included inappropriate conversations with pupils.

“One of them had been racist in nature.

“The panel concluded that both the teacher’s professional competence and conduct fell significantly short of the standards expected and, therefore, found that he is currently unfit to teach.”