Teacher banned for calling Westernised girls lunatics

(BBC) A teacher who claimed Westernised girls were “lunatics” has been banned from teaching indefinitely.

Aqib Khan, 30, who taught at Harborne Academy in Birmingham, also used words to the effect of “[having] a baby over 30 was worse than a cousin marriage and that the child will most likely have disabilities,” a panel heard.

The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) found that Mr Khan, whom, it stated, taught English, undermined “fundamental British values” of “individual liberty and mutual respect.”

The BBC has approached the academy for comment.

Mr Khan, who began teaching at the school in 2020, was being assessed over actions between May 2021 and March last year, the TRA said.

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