A teacher who has been censured for stopping two boys banging each other's heads against their desks says that in hindsight she should have left them to it. An agreed statement of facts accepted the swearing incident, but stated that Davies only "put her hand on a student's head" in the first incident. She put her hand on a student's head to stop him banging the other students' head on the desk. "She put pressure on the student's head and he pushed back against her hand. "In our view, the application of force (of any degree) to a student's head is a serious matter.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 08, 2017 22:52 UTC