A teacher who told children that LGBT+ lifestyles are “sinful” has been spared a classroom ban after she was sacked from her role.
Glawdys Leger was dismissed from her post as a teacher of modern foreign languages at Bishop Justus CofE in Bromley, south London, last May after making the claim in front of her students.
The 43-year-old said she wouldn’t teach LGBT+ material on the religious education syllabus to year seven pupils.
She told the school chaplain: “This was going too far now and that I am going to tell my pupils the truth” later telling pupils that LGBT+ practices are “sinful” and that humans are born either male or female.
Teacher who told children LGBTQ+ lifestyles are ‘sinful’ spared from classroom ban
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A misconduct panel found that her behaviour was “serious”. However, the panel decided against a classroom ban after the mother who made the complaint told them she did not expect it to “get this far”.
Leger has now been cleared of bringing the profession into disrepute and undermining British values, meaning she is now free to return to the classroom.
The complaint first arose after a student made handwritten notes of what she said and passed them on to her mother.
The mother then complained to The Aquinas Church of England Education Trust, which runs the school where Leger taught since August 2017.
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When giving evidence to the panel Leger said that same-sex marriage and active sexual relationships outside of marriage are a sin in the eyes of God.
She added: “If you are a Christian, being in a LGBT relationship is a sin.”
In her live evidence, Pupil A told the panel that during the RE lesson, Leger described a story about a gay man, who had “given up being gay to become a Christian because it was not right”.
Pupil A wrote that Leger said that “being LGBTQ+ is not fine”.
Another student, Pupil D, told the school in a misspelt statement: “Miss Leguer was talking about LGBTQ+ and she said that if God created us as a man you stay as a man and you do not change personaliti.” [sic]
Leger told the panel: “In God’s eyes if you are born male, you will remain male and if female you will remain female.”
Chair of the hearing Ian Hylan wrote: “The Panel recognised that there was a possibility that people could be upset by the comments made by Leger.
“In her evidence, Leger told the panel that she was tolerant of people from all backgrounds. The panel found her evidence to be genuine and sincere. Therefore, the panel found the allegation not proved.”
