Teacher banned for calling Westernised girls lunatics

Mr Khan was employed at Harborne Academy as an English teacher, the Teaching Regulation Agency said

A teacher who claimed westernised girls were "lunatics" has been banned from teaching indefinitely.

Aqib Khan, 30, who taught at Harborne Academy in Birmingham, also used words to the effect of "[having] a baby over 30 was worse than a cousin marriage and that the child will most likely have disabilities", a panel heard.

The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) found that Mr Khan, whom, it stated, taught English, undermined "fundamental British values" of "individual liberty and mutual respect".

The BBC has approached the academy for comment.

Mr Khan, who began teaching at the school in 2020, was being assessed over actions between May 2021 and March last year, the TRA said.

The agency's panel found as proven comments that included material on a Microsoft Teams group chat involving pupils, and that his actions amounted to both unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute.

Comments included: "By 2050 the whole of UK, France and Germany will look like Birmingham.

"The number of Muslims went up 44% in 10 years. Everyone else is falling or growing at a snail's pace. Traditional values > liberalism."

Professional boundaries

The TRA heard Mr Khan said words to the effect of: "If you believe in feminism, if you believe in aborting babies, in man and man and woman being married, if you believe in working until you are 35 years old and not having any children. If you believe all this stuff, that’s fine, believe in it. But I am telling you one fact, you’re going to get replaced by Muslims even faster, they will replace you even faster."

It was determined he failed to maintain professional boundaries.

The panel considered him to have undermined "fundamental British values, including... individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs".

Mr Khan has a right of appeal to the High Court and may apply for the ban to be set aside from 18 March 2026, two years from the date of the order.

If he did apply, a panel would consider the outcome, the TRA said.