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Female teacher struck off for ‘sexual relationship’ with Girl Guide
Joanne Munro exploited a vulnerable 16-year-old through a secret relationship involving explicit images and coercion, leading to her removal from the teaching register for two years.
- Joanne Munro, primary school teacher at St David’s Primary, Johnstone, was struck off after a secret sexual relationship with a vulnerable teenage girl.
- Long ago, Munro met the pupil at a Girl Guides camp and formed a “close, personal, intimate friendship” while sharing beds at events between April 1 and April 6, 2012, and at a camp in June 2012.
- Investigators found the relationship involved explicit image exchanges and paid trips, with Munro organising work experience at St David’s Primary while intimate encounters continued.
- The General Teaching Council for Scotland issued a removal-with-consent order saying Munro’s actions were 'sexually motivated', removing her from the GTCS register with a two-year application bar.
- Across camps and school settings, investigators identified repeated boundary breaches at Girl Guides events, camps and St David’s Primary School, Johnstone, with Munro arranging work experience and sustained contact.
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Johnstone teacher struck off over secret relationship with teenage girl
A primary school teacher who worked in Johnstone has been struck off after admitting to a secret sexual relationship with a teenage girl which lasted almost two years. Joanne Munro, who taught at St David’s Primary in Johnstone and was also a Girlguiding leader, was removed from the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) register after accepting a consent order. The misconduct began when the girl was 16 and continued into her late teens, w…
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