The General Teaching Council has decided one teacher in southeastern England is so incompetent he must be banned from the profession for life.

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The council has suspended 13 teachers' licenses for varying periods in the past decade. Nisar Ahmed is the first to get a life sentence, the Daily Mail reported.

Ahmed, 46, said he is appealing the decision.

"They have made a scapegoat out of me," he told the newspaper. "I'm deeply unhappy about it and don't deserve to be the first to be struck off for life."

Ahmed has been a teacher for 13 years, most recently at John O'Gaunt Community Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, a school for students ages 11 to 18.

The council said the school tried to give Ahmed support to help him improve his classroom management and his disorganized habits. They said he sometimes left his students' work in his car or at home.

"We could not be satisfied that you have an appropriate level of insight into your shortcomings," said Rosalind Burford, head of the disciplinary committee.