Good Riddance - But Pray For Her All The Same!

 Teacher who made offensive comments about Jesus is banned for 2 years.

Staff writer  19 October 2023 

                     Beath High School, Cowdenbeath.

A teacher at a Scottish school has been banned from the classroom for two years after making offensive comments, including that "Jesus was gay". 

Donna Gilchrist was employed by Beath High School in Cowdenbeath, Fife, for only 30 days between December 2017 and January 2018. 

Despite her short tenure, she made a number of comments in the classroom that drew concern from pupils, parents and staff at the school. 

In August, she was struck off the teaching register by the General Teaching Council (GTC) Scotland after being deemed unfit to teach.

GTC solicitor Jennifer McPhee said the allegations against Gilcrhist were of the utmost seriousness, the Dundee Courier reports.

They included using a racial slur and telling a devout Christian pupil that "Jesus was gay". 

In one incident she called a red-haired pupil "the ginger one". Other complaints concerned talking about porn in the classroom and mocking overweight people and a pupil with dyslexia while she was reading.  CT.