Teacher sacked after telling pupils about lad ‘left bleeding from dildo mishap’

A teacher has been struck off after she allegedly told pupils about the dangers of sex toys and rectal bleeding during a lesson on Charles Dicken’s classic A Christmas Carol.

Kathryn Matthews, 43, accused her kids of ‘colluding against her’ after the allegation came to light but the English teacher was suspended from The Westleigh School in Lancashire following a Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) investigation.

A staff member, known as Witness A, told the panel a pupil said Matthews had stood up at the front of classto speak about ‘someone who stuck a dildo with a suction cup on the back of his bedroom door’.

The witness claimed Ms Matthews said the young ‘lad backed up on to the dildo’ but as his grandmother flung the door open he was left’bleeding everywhere’ and ‘being a big mess’.

Witness B, who conducted the school’s investigation into Ms Matthews’s alleged misconduct, recorded that a pupil said: ‘She [Ms Matthews] doesn’t personally know this person but they had a suction cup dildo he stuck it on his bathroom door put his music on blasting and was easing the dildo into his bum.

‘He didn’t hear grandma come home and she opened the door and he panicked and the dildo went up his bum making him bleed and pass out. She was stood at the front of the class telling the whole class.’

Another student asked Ms Matthews about orgasms and how many girls can have, to which the teacher responded: ‘Girls can have eight orgasms but boys only have one which is up their bum.’

Ms Matthews allegedly also said ‘gay men were gay because they only have orgasms up their bum’, according to the pupil who added that the conversation lasted around 25 minutes.

The teacher insisted that the pupils had colluded against her but the panel noted she was well liked by her class and was ‘more like a friend
than a teacher’.

Other staff thought it was ‘unlikely that any pupils would have colluded to seek to concoct the matters which form the heart of the allegation’.

Ms Matthews denied that students asked her about orgasms in the lesson in November 2023.

She also denied telling a story involving a young person and a sex toy, stating that maybe the pupils had seen it on TikTok and that the lesson was on A Christmas Carol and nothing else.

Ms Matthews ‘did not engage’ with the panel.

The panel found the allegations proven and have prohibited Ms Matthews from teaching indefinitely.

She cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England but may apply for the prohibition order to be set aside in two years.