Drunk Teacher Takes Minor Pupils To Strip Club During School Trip

A drunk teacher who threatened his students and took a few of them to a strip club during a school trip has been banned from teaching for three years. The 55-year-old teacher is also accused of exposing himself in front of female staff.

Richard Glenn, a computer science teacher at the Longridge Towers School, in Northumberland of North East England. behaved in an "unacceptable" manner during a student trip to Costa Rica in July 2019, the Teaching Regulation Agency heard.

Glenn was one of the teachers leading the student group of 16 to 18-year-olds that went to Costa Rica on July 5, 2019.

He was supposed to be with the group until July 28, but was sent home after six days "due to his behavior".

Glenn was accused of drinking with his students, despite some of them being under the legal age of 18.

He is accused of threatening to "kick the head in" of one student and "kill" another. After taking out his aggression on one of the students, Glenn allegedly kissed him on his forehead and told him "you're all right".

The married father-of-two then took a few of his pupils to a lap dancing club.

Glenn also allegedly became aggressive towards the female staff leading the trip when she tried to help him back to his tent. He is also accused of exposing himself to the woman in a shared hotel room.

He confessed to the misconduct and was dismissed from the school in August 2019.

The regulation panel said Glenn’s behavior "placed one or more pupils in his care at risk".

The panel said that there was "no malice or sexual intent" in taking the students to the strip club, but the accused admitted it was "inappropriate and unprofessional" for him to be not able to control the situation.

Glenn told the panel that he could not remember what happened "due to his state of intoxication" but he "did not dispute the recollection of those present", a report said.

"Mr. Glenn was, at various times during the trip, under the influence of alcohol, and therefore not in a position to adequately take decisions or act in loco parentis," Caroline Tilley, who chaired the panel, said.

"This was in circumstances where pupils under his care were in an unfamiliar country, far from home, and relying on him for guidance and protection."

"Mr. Glenn was an experienced teacher and pastoral leader who would have been expected to lead an overseas trip safely, and would have been well aware of the conduct expected of him," Tiley said.

After Glenn completes three years of his teaching ban, he will need to re-apply to continue being a teacher.