Teacher who caught tutor husband having sex with 17-year-old student faces teaching ban for not reporting him
A teacher who stood by her fellow teacher husband and did not report him despite finding out that he was having an affair with a 17-year-old student he was privately tutoring faces the prospect of losing her teaching license.
Jane Schalch, 39, and her husband Bryan Schalch, 42, were both teachers at a prestigious independent boarding school that charges students up to $39,129 a year when he started the affair with the teenage girl in September 2015, according to the Daily Mail.
Bryan, then a housemaster at the school, had previously been hired by the teen's parents as a private tutor and had kept contact with her, setting up meetings with her in a supermarket car park where he kissed her.
Eventually, he invited her back to his $598,000 marital home in Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire, where he had sex with her three times.
Jane learned of the affair in November 2015 when she arrived home and caught him with the girl in her underwear.
However, she did not report him to their superiors at the school and instead kept it a secret. Bryan's affair continued with the 17-year-old until March 2016, when it came to the attention of the authorities after one of the friends of the teen got wind of it and raised the issue.
Bryan was charged with three counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust, and during his subsequent trial at the Warwick Crown Court, he was branded as "immoral and shabby" by a judge.
He was eventually cleared of wrongdoing because the girl was a pupil at another school, but was barred from working with children in the future.
Jane was dismissed for gross misconduct in March 2018, and at a hearing of the Teaching Regulation Agency in Coventry, the panel heard that the 39-year-old had admitted to placing the victim at risk of harm by not whistleblowing. However, she claimed that her husband had lied to her and told her that the girl was 18.
The Teaching Regulation Agency said she had ignored her safeguarding responsibility to the teenager and will now work to determine if they should recommend a prohibition order from teaching.