A married teacher who had an affair with a 16-year-old student will be struck off the register after the weekend.
 
Bernadette Smith, who is a mum of three, also received a two-year community payback order for seducing teen Gary Ralston, and has been placed on the sex offenders’ register.
 
The 35-year-old teacher resigned from Bannockburn High School near Stirling after Gary’s family alerted the school to the affair.
 
Smith said she had relations with the teen after learning of husband Brian’s infidelity with another woman, with whom he fathered a child.
 
Smith denies having sex with the student but said she spent the night with him in his bed wearing very little clothing. 
 
After she was sentenced, she said she was very sorry for her actions.
 
Gary’s dad Richard said Smith should have been jailed calling her, “a sex offender, pure and simple”.

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