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| A supply teacher who secretly filmed unruly pupils for TV was guilty of unacceptable professional conduct, the teachers' professional body says. | A supply teacher who secretly filmed unruly pupils for TV was guilty of unacceptable professional conduct, the teachers' professional body says. |
| The General Teaching Council for England said Angela Mason, from London, had committed a breach of trust. | |
| Mrs Mason admitted carrying out the secret filming for a Channel 5 documentary, but said she had acted in the public interest. | |
| The teachers' professional body has the power to ban her from teaching. | The teachers' professional body has the power to ban her from teaching. |
| It has not yet announced what action it will take. | It has not yet announced what action it will take. |
| Mrs Mason returned to the profession after 30 years and signed up with agencies for work as a supply teacher, with a view to taking part in documentaries, the GTC heard. | |
| Using a camera hidden in her handbag, she secretly filmed at a number of schools in London and in the north east of England for the Channel 5 programme Classroom Chaos. | |
| She recorded a number of incidents of pupils misbehaving and disrupting lessons in late 2004 and early 2005. | |
| At the hearing in Birmingham, the GTC ruled the public interest defence was not strong enough to justify the breach of trust implicit in the secret filming. |