DISGRACED teacher Richard Dent surfed porn sites while his students went unsupervised at a Kirklees school.
Now Dent has been banned from working as a teacher for the next two years.
And he will have to be assessed again by education watchdogs if he wants to return to the profession.
The allegations emerged when Dent’s case was brought before a disciplinary panel of the General Teaching Council.
The man himself failed to appear but the panel took the evidence in his absence.
Dent was a teacher at St John Fisher Catholic High School and specialist sports college in Oxford Road, Dewsbury.
The school takes in youngsters aged from 11 to 18 from across Kirklees.
Dent admitted the allegations which surfaced early last year.
Panel members, meeting in Birmingham, viewed some of the pornographic material accessed by Dent and described it as “inappropriate as they include images of a highly-explicit sexual nature”.
He used school computers to view sex sites and admitted that his conduct fell short of the required standards.
David Dewhirst, Panel chairman, said: “We have taken account that he accepted the allegation both at the time of the school investigation and for the purpose of this hearing, but we are placed in a difficult position by Mr Dent’s failure to provide us with any explanation or his current personal circumstances.
“We have to conclude his conduct was deliberate and it was aggravated by him leaving his pupils unsupervised during lessons to access these sites”.
He said it would be wrong for Dent to be allowed to teach again without further scrutiny.
A Kirklees Council spokesman said: “He left the school the day before an internal disciplinary hearing in March 2006”.
