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TRA Bans Bournemouth Teacher Over Targeted, Discriminatory Remarks in 2022 Lesson

The regulator imposed an indefinite prohibition after finding his honour‑killings class targeted pupils.

Overview

  • Alex Lloyd, formerly head of sixth form at The Bishop of Winchester Academy, was barred indefinitely from teaching in England and cannot work in any school, sixth-form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home.
  • The Teaching Regulation Agency panel found his admitted conduct amounted to unacceptable professional conduct and reinforced discriminatory stereotypes outside the lesson material.
  • Evidence detailed comments including telling a pupil to imagine their mother being killed, asserting female genital mutilation happens exclusively in a pupil’s culture, and saying a girl would have been killed in Iran for her clothing.
  • Witness accounts said pupils were distraught, and the panel reported Lloyd showed no remorse and attempted to justify his comments as factual, contrary to Fundamental British Values.
  • He cannot apply to have the prohibition set aside until October 2029, and the academy said he is no longer employed there.