IT teacher sent sex texts

An unqualified IT teacher who called a vulnerable schoolgirl a ‘hussy’ while sending her texts and emails about sex has been banned from teaching. Kris Barnett, 37, also referred to the student at Lutterworth College in Leicestershire as ‘honey’ and ‘sweetheart’ in a series of suggestive messages after she admitted self-harming. Although they never arranged to meet outside of school, the pupil told a tribunal their conversations were more like ‘boyfriend and girlfriend’. When the student’s family became suspicious, Barnett…