Teacher banned for spraying Asian primary children with air freshener
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[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/15/teacher-banned-air-freshener-asian[/url]
[quote="The Guardian"]
A teacher has been banned from classrooms after spraying children of Asian origin with air freshener if she said she smelled curry.
Elizabeth Davies, 48, was struck off for at least two years for the way she treated children in her primary school class.
A disciplinary hearing was told that Davies would say: "There is a waft coming from paradise" before using the air freshener. She was accused of having a "smug look" as she sprayed children in the class, where half the pupils were of Bangladeshi origin.
Teaching assistant Wendy Roe alleged she used the words "black bastards" in a low whisper on more than one occasion. Asked if she thought Davies was discriminating against the children on the grounds of their race, Roe said: "I think so. I feel she had a problem with them."
Davies denied five allegations of spraying aerosol at pupils, washing pupils' hands in disinfectant and making children stand on newspaper after they accidentally wet themselves.
She was also accused of asking her support staff to spray the children at the 260-pupil Hafod primary school in Swansea, south Wales.
The disciplinary panel found her guilty of each of these things. The panel chair, Peter Williams, said there was insufficient evidence to say that Davies used the term "black bastards".
Davies, of Neath, was sacked from her £34,000-a-year job over "child protection concerns".
She did not attend the General Teaching Council for Wales hearing in Cardiff but was represented by her union.
Her representative Peggy George said she was "surprised" by the racial allegations. She said: "It has never been raised as an issue before."
The panel chairman, Peter Williams, said: "The committee is satisfied that the conduct of Mrs Davies fell short of the standard of a registered teacher and therefore amounts to unprofessional conduct.
"The totality of the evidence is that Mrs Davies used the air freshener on the children and this was a common occurrence."
She was removed from the teaching register and told it will be two years before she can reapply.
Williams said: "Her behaviour strikes at the very heart of what it is to be a teacher.
"Her behaviour showed disregard for young and vulnerable pupils. There was clear abuse of her position of trust. She has shown no regret."
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I like to spray students down with pepper spray and some onion when I don't smell curry.
Wash them with fabreeze :D
Let's find our where this teacher is and throw curry at her.
[quote]She was accused of having a "smug look" as she sprayed children in the class[/quote]
:smug:
[QUOTE]She was accused of having a "smug look" as she sprayed children in the class[/QUOTE]
That's the funniest thing I read all day.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;28072910]Let's find our where this teacher is and throw curry at her.[/QUOTE]
But then she'll spray us.
Thing I don't understand is how she got away with just a 2 year ban from teaching, as it doesn't seem like it was just one incident.
[QUOTE=Coffee;28073162]But then she'll spray us.[/QUOTE]
No, she'll have to spray herself before anything else.
curry smells so spicy i don't blame her!!!
Curry sucks
curry burns my anus, i see why she did it
dumb bitch, good se's gone
Good job she's gone. Jesus, and I thought my teachers were assholes. A word of advice for anyone in school, don't move to Wales.
Theres a kid in our school who smells of curry and pee
There's some goth kid at our school and you don't want to stand in 3 meter radius of him, how can someone smell that bad? I'm happy I'm not having any classes with him.
Oh god the mental image.
I love curry. I'm offended
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;28074478]Theres a kid in our school who smells of curry and pee[/QUOTE]
And soon he will smell of "outdoor scent"!
Are they seriously getting mad about spraying air freshener?
Air freshener never works.
She should have sprayed them with heated hydrogen peroxide. Gets the stench out of anything.
Seriously? No one agrees with me?
Honestly, I'm not being racist here.
Black people have this god awful smell when you're near them. Seriously, go within a few feet of them and take a whiff.
Same with Indian people.
Unless that's because they don't bathe. Meh.
I know if I was a teacher I wouldn't be able to put up with it.
God damnit, why am I generalizing an entire race. :(
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[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;28077636]Air freshener never works.
She should have sprayed them with heated hydrogen peroxide. Gets the stench out of anything.[/QUOTE]
if she was smart enough to know that, I doubt she'd think spraying the curry out of Asian kids is a very good idea
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;28078063]
Black people have this god awful smell when you're near them.[/QUOTE]
I wonder how long it will take you to get banned.
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;28078063]Seriously? No one agrees with me?
Honestly, I'm not being racist here.
Black people have this god awful smell when you're near them. Seriously, go within a few feet of them and take a whiff.
Same with Indian people.
Unless that's because they don't bathe. Meh.
I know if I was a teacher I wouldn't be able to put up with it.
God damnit, why am I generalizing an entire race. :([/QUOTE]
wow
My automerge
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;28078101]I wonder how long it will take you to get banned.[/QUOTE]
Why?
No one seems to notice it.
For some reason, I find the smell a disgust. Not saying I hate the race.
Besides, white people smell too.
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;28078063]Seriously? No one agrees with me?
Honestly, I'm not being racist here.
Black people have this god awful smell when you're near them. Seriously, go within a few feet of them and take a whiff.
Same with Indian people.
Unless that's because they don't bathe. Meh.
I know if I was a teacher I wouldn't be able to put up with it.
God damnit, why am I generalizing an entire race. :([/QUOTE]
Its amazing that you smelled every single person of African origin on the planet and deduced that all of them smell bad, I mean, you're not making a baseless assumption or being a god-forsaken idiot!
[sp] Mexicans smell like pepper [/sp]
"Unless that's because they don't bathe"
read.
[QUOTE=New Cidem;28078190]Its amazing that you smelled every single person of African origin on the planet and deduced that all of them smell bad, I mean, you're not making a baseless assumption or being a god-forsaken idiot!
[sp] Mexicans smell like pepper [/sp][/QUOTE]
Dont even reply to something that stupid. Also I can tell Roflkawper is a shit poster. All shit posters smell like beans and It smells like im in a tocabell right now. I think its really the smell of there brains rotting though.
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