Drunken head teacher ate crisps from between her breasts and told pupils they were ‘too sexy’ during school trip
Gillian Rew, 49, even told one male pupil that his chest was better than her husbands’
A SHAMED ex-headteacher who drunkenly told a pupil he was “too sexy” before eating crisps from between her boobs has avoided being struck off.
Gillian Rew, 49, even told one male pupil that his chest was better than her husbands’ after necking EIGHT GLASSES OF WINE.
A hearing, whose findings were released today, heard Rew had "improper contact"; with pupils on the weekend away in Lockerbie.
She was suspended and later fired from her £74,000-a-year post at Arbroath High School after a parent complained.
But incredibly she has avoided bring struck off the teaching register - and was instead slapped with a two-year conditional registration order.
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General Teaching Council Scotland heard how Rew also pulled herself up from the floor by holding onto a pupil’s ankles and balanced crisps between her breasts during the incident in September 2014.
She accepted that she used inappropriate language, including swearing, and told a male pupil to “put his body away as it was too sexy”.
Rew also "held her breasts and made comments about them, entered pupils’ bedrooms, ate crisps and sweets and thereafter reached into her top to take crisps from between her breasts."
The case panel decided that given the personal difficulties Rew was having, it would be unreasonable to declare her unfit to teach.
Rew admitted in her hearing that she was “mortified” by her behaviour and at the time was drinking too much, partly as a result of working 14-hour days among hostile colleagues.
But she claimed she did not think any of her pupils “would have been particularly alarmed” by the events at Lockerbie Manor in September 2014 - claiming they were "a bit of light banter.”
She also confirmed that on the night she stayed up until 4am, and had drunk eight glasses of sauvignon blanc from a box.
Discussing her decision to take wine on the school trip, she said: “I honestly don’t think that I was in a particularly good place to make proper cognitive decisions.”
Pupils from the school later discussed the shocking events on social media.
One wrote: "Omg Mrs Rew :((."
While another added: "Mrs Rew came to a party with us aswell and k'oed on the couch, that's the way teacher should be, god bless Gilliian rew."
Seeking to remain on the register, Rew said that she had undergone therapy and alcohol counselling since the event.
Rew – now employed by teaching union EIS – said: “My days of leading a school are gone.
“The most I would hope would be to retain my teaching registration.”
The hearing ordered that Rew must now comply with several conditions, including regular alcohol testing.
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