Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LONDON, July 4 (UPI) -- A British teacher has been found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct after she filmed her unruly classroom for a television documentary. Angela Mason, who was suspended for one year, argued the filming -- which she carried out using a camera hidden in her purse -- was in the public interest, but the argument was rejected by the General Teaching Council, Sky News reported Wednesday. Advertisement The council ruled that Mason's video footage of students swearing, fighting and viewing Internet pornography breached the trust she had with her students. Mason took the footage from several schools for the TV documentary "Classroom Chaos," which aired in April 2005. "She was employed and paid by these schools to teach pupils in her care," said Andrew Baxter, chairman of the General Teaching Council. "In fact, her true motivation was to obtain secret film of the pupils for the purposes of a television program. In that respect we find that her conduct abused the trust of the head teachers, staff and pupils at the schools."
