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A female teacher has been struck off for sending steamy love letters and text messages to a 17-year-old boy at her school.
The woman told the student in a three-page handwritten letter she wanted to "make love in the shower and a lot of other places".
She wrote that the teenager made her feel whole, loved and worshipped.
"I know I am not the only woman that will love you in your lifetime but for me, this first love will always be special, unique and pure - pure glamour.
"I will stay with you. Moon dance with you. Love you, forever and always."
In a just released decision, the Teachers Council's disciplinary tribunal censured the woman for serious misconduct, cancelled her teacher registration and ordered her to pay costs.
The student, known in documents as A, the school and the teacher, who was the head of art and a house leader at the time, cannot be legally identified.
The woman's mother also worked at the high school.
The tribunal heard how A's parents came home to find the woman at their son's New Year's Eve party just before midnight then checked his mobile phone to find text messages from her.
The parents went to the school after finding the woman's letter to their son.
The woman, who resigned and has since enrolled in law school, gave evidence that she had never taught A in a formal sense.
Her counsel, Bernard Banks, said the exchanges between the woman and A were more benign than they might first appear.
The former teacher denied suggestions by the council's Complaints Assessment Committee counsel Jenny Gibson that the letter and text messages conveyed she was in love with A and wanted to pursue a sexual relationship with him.
