A teacher and a school principal are being investigated for allegedly removing headphones from a nine-year-old boy with autism without warning. The teacher is also accused of shouting at the boy. The incident and the school's handling of the complaint are under scrutiny.
A teacher and a school principal have appeared before a fitness-to-teach inquiry over the alleged inappropriate removal of headphones from a nine-year-old boy with autism and how the school handled a complaint about the incident in his class. The teacher is accused of professional misconduct for allegedly removing ear defenders from the pupil, who was acutely sensitive to noise, without any warning on 5 February 2019, as well as shouting at him.
The boy's mother told the inquiry that he wears the ear defenders 24-hours a day because he cannot bear any type of noise. The teacher also faces two other allegations of professional misconduct over another incident three weeks later in which it is claimed he tried to pull the boy off the floor by his arm in an inappropriate manner. He was also accused of failing to include sufficient information in the pupil’s journal that the boy had hit his head off a mirror just before falling on the floor and failing to phone his parents about what had happene
Teacher Principal Inquiry Fitness-To-Teach Headphones Autistic Boy Professional Misconduct Complaint Sensitivity To Noise Shouting Incident Handling Investigation
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