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A Renfrewshire primary school teacher has been banned from the profession after having a secret sexual relationship with a teenage girl for two years. ‌

Joanne Munro was working at St David’s Primary in Johnstone when she started a “close, personal, intimate friendship” with a vulnerable 16-year-old she met at a Girl Guides camp in August 2011. ‌

Munro gave the youngster alcohol, told her to keep the relationship a secret and even kissed her before she sat an exam. ‌

The disgraced teacher was hauled before the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) where she admitted a string of allegations. She accepted her fitness to teach was impaired and that she was unfit to teach. The shamed teacher also accepted her actions were ‘sexually motivated’.

On various occasi

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