A SCOTTISH school teacher has been struck off the teaching register after hitting a pupil during a private tutoring session in her home.
Alexander McLean, a maths and physics teacher, was convicted in November 2023 at Hamilton Sheriff Court of assaulting the female student.
When McLean found out about the prelim result he responded he “…could have skelped her up her a***”.
McLean hit the pupil on the body after she gave a wrong answer to a question during a tutoring session in her home.
McLean stated he did not wish to teach again or be involved in the investigation when contacted by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) in October last year.
He said: “Remove me from the teaching Register as I have no desire to ever teach again. This will be my final correspondence with you and the GTCS and further communications will be ignored.”
The council found McLean “had fallen significantly short of the standards expected, was fundamentally incompatible with being a registered teacher, and that he was unfit to teach”.
McLean was struck off on November 4, 2024, and is barred from reapplying to the profession for two years.
