TEACHER BANNED OVER 'INTIMATE' MESSAGES TO PUPILS
A private school teacher sent "intimate" messages to two female pupils, a panel has found.Reece Morgan, who worked at Seaford College in West Sussex, exchanged "increasingly more inappropriate" emails with "Pupil A".
The panel’s decision, published on Tuesday, states Mr Morgan later suggested to "Pupil B" in messages that he could have a relationship with her.
The panel banned Mr Morgan from teaching indefinitely, subject to a two-year review period.
The emails, sent between June and July 2019, were deemed "inappropriate" and "intimate," but it was found that his conduct was not sexually motivated.
Mr Morgan also gave a gift to Pupil A during a school event outside the boarding house, which the panel ruled as "deeply personal, such that it was intimate." He admitted to hugging Pupil A once at a school event.
The hearing revealed Mr Morgan began messaging a second pupil, "Pupil B," in the weeks after her final term in July until October 2019, and visited her parents to "level it all out," which indicated that his contact with her was suggestive of a possible relationship.
