Curtis Austin, 35, was part of a ' barbaric' group chat at a school in east London, where female staff were degraded and called 'kinky sluts' and 'pure filth' and pupils were branded 'retarded' and 'thick'.
A second primary school teacher has been banned from the classroom over a vile WhatsApp chat where sexist and homophobic messages about female staff were swapped with male colleagues.
In the chat between the disgraced educators, female staff were degraded and branded as 'kinky sluts' and 'pure filth', the Teaching Regulation Authority said. Curtis Austin, 35, was part of a 'barbaric' group chat at Engayne Primary School in Upminster, east London , in which he cracked racist jokes, branded pupils 'annoying', and 'retarded' and called a female colleague 'f*** buddy material'.
He participated in the group between July 2019 and February 2020. He was suspended in April 2021 after the chat was exposed by cops. He resigned in May 2021. One message about pupils sent in the group, referring to a parent of one child, read: 'Does she expect me to stand next to her deformed kid 24-7'. Another added: 'if your kids fat, has a s*** on her feet, wtf do you expect me to do.'
The TRA noted that, in Austin's oral evidence, he accepted there were sexually objectifying messages about female colleagues. However, he denied the comments were of a sexual nature, saying they were 'stupid' and 'immature'. During an earlier misconduct hearing into Matthew Clare, the TRA revealed he had been part of a group chat called the 'Nip Clockers'.
He has been spared a teaching ban and has since moved to £16,818-a-year Snaresbrook Preparatory School in South Woodford, north-east London. And Twist received a message from a Austin about one female colleague with the comment 'someone is going to have to take one for the team and donkey punch her.' The third teacher was Grant Twist, who taught Year 3, before resigning in May 2021 when the WhatsApp group was exposed
Austin was banned from teaching for at least three years, after which he can apply for his ban to be lifted. Clare was banned from the profession for at least two years.
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