Bromsgrove teacher accidentally showed sex scene DVD
A teacher accidentally showed a class of 11 and 12-year-old pupils in a Worcestershire church school a DVD of a couple simulating sex, a hearing of the General Teaching Council was told.
The scene, believed to be from the American crime drama CSI, showed a man and a woman cavorting naked on a desk.
It viewed during a lesson at St John’s Church of England Middle Foundation School, in Bromsgrove.
The teacher, Michael Collings, had been showing pupils a recording of the nature programme Planet Earth he had made which, when it finished, featured the raunchy scene for five seconds.
Two pupils complained and he was sacked after a 30-year teaching career.
Mr Collings, aged 56, from Redditch, was summoned before a GTC hearing in Birmingham to answer an allegation of unacceptable professional conduct.
This related to four incidents – using the school computer system inappropriately to download and watch music videos in the classroom; accessing an inappropriate website while pupils were present; viewing eBay during teaching time and showing a portion of a TV programme containing inappropriate images to a class of children.
