Supply teacher banned for telling pupil ‘if you took him outside and shot him, no one would miss him’

A supply teacher was banned from teaching a lesson because he told a student in his class, “If you take him out and shoot him, no one will miss him.”

Carolyn Akers, a science teacher at a school in Weymouth, told her student that they would “be transgender” when they grew up and hit her over the head with a booklet.

The 53-year-old student was banned from teaching indefinitely by the misconduct panel.

Between June 2019 and February 2020, Ms Akers was teaching at Budmouth Academy in Weymouth when she insulted one of her students. In February 2020, a parent complaining about the language led to the local authority designated officer (LADO) being notified.

When the investigation began, it emerged that Ms. Akers was under separate investigation at her former school, Queen Elizabeth. In 2018, he was investigated for making inappropriate comments to students and placing a scientific clamp on a student’s nose.

He was expelled from school and LADO told him to inform future employers about what was happening. But when Ms. Akers applied for a job at another school, King Arthur’s, in February 2020, she did not disclose two previous misconduct investigations.

The misconduct panel found that Ms Akers’ behavior amounted to serious misconduct and that her actions could bring the teaching profession into disrepute. He will have to wait four years before he can apply to the panel to have his sentence overturned.

The panel’s report revealed that Ms. Akers also insulted the student, whom she hit in the head with the booklet, by calling him “stupid” and/or “wet” or words to that effect.

Ms. Akers also admitted calling the student that and saying about him: “If you took him out and shot him, no one would miss him.”

In its conclusions, published in October 2025, the misconduct panel said: “The panel is satisfied that Ms Akers’ conduct amounted to misconduct of a serious nature that fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession.

“Accordingly, the board is satisfied that Ms. Akers is guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.”

They also agreed that Ms. Aker’s behavior “could potentially harm the public’s perception of the teacher.”