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A first-year teacher elbowed and slapped an eight-year-old student with behaviour challenges after the student threw yoghurt over her.
It was an action that landed the woman in the Teachers' Disciplinary Tribunal, facing charges of serious misconduct for using excessive force on the child.
According to the agreed summary of facts tabled at a tribunal hearing earlier this year, the woman, who has name suppression, was in her first fulltime teaching role.
The tribunal's decision, publicly released on Friday, stated that at lunchtime, several students had started throwing spoons at other children, and the teacher interve
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