Call for 'common sense' after teacher censured for carrying childRNZ A teacher has been censured for carrying a struggling child to a school principal's office. The president of a school principals' association is calling for "common sense to prevail" after the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal found a teacher guilty of misconduct for carrying a struggling child to the principal's office. And the New Zealand Education Institute said teachers were seeing a "rise" in pupil misbehaviour which they needed more support to tackle. Under the legislation, teachers are permitted to restrain a child in the most minimal way possible, and only while the pupil is in the act that endangers themselves or another person. "The whole thing is about common sense, and common sense hasn't been applied here.

Source: Stuff November 08, 2017 21:43 UTC