She should have been struck off permanently, slept with a student and then lied about it.
At what point does it become okay for an ex-student to date a teacher?
Is it 6 months after finishing? A year? Two years?
Why aren’t they banned indefinitely?
And good teachers like me are leaving as they cant get good contracts. This woman is a dp.
Don’t see the issue if she wasn’t attending the school anymore ridiculous actually
>He forwarded photos and images from the teacher’s Instagram account to the regulatory body, which showed the couple together between 2022 and 2025, including on a holiday in Greece.
This doesn’t makes sense. So apparently this started in 2018 when he (the student was 18) doing his leaving cert that summer and the teacher was 28.
They then has a relation together as adults over the next 8 years on and off, going on holidays etc.
Then he brings all this up against her after they split, followed by her husband finding out about the affair also bringing evidence.
While I totally get the “conflict of interest” if a teacher has relations with a present student, especially a underage adult/child.
But with both consenting adults above legal age, I cannot find this is quite a punishment for the teacher, who has now worked herself up to a assistant headteacher. It’s obviously a very grey area but once someone if of age they can quite frankly do what they want as adults.
Now I might be a bit crazy here lads, but someone as powerful as a teacher to leaving cert students, keeping private contact with a student for two years, then booking a hotel with them as soon as they’re legally available to do so, then developing that relationship afterwards well into 5-6 years?
I mean it’s a textbook case of grooming, no?
Gossip locally about a very similar case here over the last week or so, both still at the school. Gardaí now involved and devices seized apparently.
I’m not defending her is anyway, BUT the way the article is written intends to make it extra scandalous. It say “the now 33 year old Teacher” and “the then 18 old student”. It also says that the offences happened in June 2018. That’s 8 so she was 25 to his 18 when it happened. Still not right, but lets the facts speak for themselves.
I guess that’s how you get to be a 1% commenter, be on every single thread in a post misting up everyone’s window with your breath
Bit of a grey area there considering that it was a “former” student at the consenting age of 18 where the initial contact was made.
The *now* 26 year old and 33 year old just doesn’t sell the story does it?
Might as well just be banned for life. How will you get another job. Yh I’ve been off teaching for 5 years coz I had sex with a former student is not what someone wants to hear at a job interview.
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Can I ask why they arent banned indefinitely?
She should have been struck off permanently, slept with a student and then lied about it.
At what point does it become okay for an ex-student to date a teacher?
Is it 6 months after finishing? A year? Two years?
Why aren’t they banned indefinitely?
And good teachers like me are leaving as they cant get good contracts. This woman is a dp.
Don’t see the issue if she wasn’t attending the school anymore ridiculous actually
>He forwarded photos and images from the teacher’s Instagram account to the regulatory body, which showed the couple together between 2022 and 2025, including on a holiday in Greece.
This doesn’t makes sense. So apparently this started in 2018 when he (the student was 18) doing his leaving cert that summer and the teacher was 28.
They then has a relation together as adults over the next 8 years on and off, going on holidays etc.
Then he brings all this up against her after they split, followed by her husband finding out about the affair also bringing evidence.
While I totally get the “conflict of interest” if a teacher has relations with a present student, especially a underage adult/child.
But with both consenting adults above legal age, I cannot find this is quite a punishment for the teacher, who has now worked herself up to a assistant headteacher. It’s obviously a very grey area but once someone if of age they can quite frankly do what they want as adults.
Now I might be a bit crazy here lads, but someone as powerful as a teacher to leaving cert students, keeping private contact with a student for two years, then booking a hotel with them as soon as they’re legally available to do so, then developing that relationship afterwards well into 5-6 years?
I mean it’s a textbook case of grooming, no?
Gossip locally about a very similar case here over the last week or so, both still at the school. Gardaí now involved and devices seized apparently.
I’m not defending her is anyway, BUT the way the article is written intends to make it extra scandalous. It say “the now 33 year old Teacher” and “the then 18 old student”. It also says that the offences happened in June 2018. That’s 8 so she was 25 to his 18 when it happened. Still not right, but lets the facts speak for themselves.
I guess that’s how you get to be a 1% commenter, be on every single thread in a post misting up everyone’s window with your breath
Bit of a grey area there considering that it was a “former” student at the consenting age of 18 where the initial contact was made.
The *now* 26 year old and 33 year old just doesn’t sell the story does it?
Might as well just be banned for life. How will you get another job. Yh I’ve been off teaching for 5 years coz I had sex with a former student is not what someone wants to hear at a job interview.