A teacher has been struck off after failing to tell a day-care centre she had previously been accused of verbally and physically abusing children in her care. The female early childhood teacher hid her past until she needed an appraisal from her new employer.
It was only then she revealed she had been placed on report while working at another centre after allegedly yelling at a toddler playing with a metal garden rake.
Now the New Zealand Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal has found failing to list her previous employer on her CV and revealing she was under investigation by the Complaints Assessment Committee amounted to serious misconduct.
During the hearing, two more incidents came to light including where the teacher had pulled a child by her arm in a rough manner and another involving an incident of "marching towards" a child.
The teacher told the tribunal she left the previous childcare centre off her CV because she thought the grounds of the mandatory report were vexatious, and she disputed the yelling incident.
