Teacher offers resignation

The Wairarapa College teacher accused of misconduct involving a 16-year-old female pupil is set to resign from the school.
Wairarapa College principal Mike Schwass said yesterday the teacher has given "verbal indication" that he would resign although there has been no written resignation yet received.
The teacher, 24 is a former Wairarapa College pupil who has taught there since November 2005.
Yesterday he declined to comment when contacted by the Times-Age.
He referred all inquiries to his New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association representative, Paul Benefield, in Palmerston North, who was last night unable to be contacted.
Matt Velde, NZPPTA communications adviser, said the registration of the teacher could still be in jeopardy although this was a matter for the New Zealand Teachers Council to decide.
According to the council website the cancellation of teacher registration may be appealed through the District Court, and registration may be sought again at any time.
The site also features a list of cancelled registrations.
Mr Schwass, who has been in contact with the family of the girl since the allegation of professional misconduct was made last week, said the Year 12 pupil has been now "signed out of the school as per her family's wishes".
"The family have requested the matter be treated as low key as possible."
The girl would not respond to a Times-Age request for comment made to her through the American-based networking website, bebo.
The site has hosted a flurry of comment made night and day since last week between the girl ? who has the bebo username ....So Wrong!! But It Feels So Right!!.... ? and her teenage supporters.
According to publicly accessible correspondence posted at the site, the girl said she and the teacher are now in Wellington together where she yesterday began study after enrolling at a school in the capital.
Employment advice has been given to the teacher along with support and calls for his return to Wairarapa College.
The girl and her online friends are finding the sudden news media attention enjoyable but difficult to tame with comments posted about whether or not she should talk to the media.
The mother of the girl yesterday declined to comment on the whereabouts of her daughter and the circumstances surrounding the allegation of misconduct.
"Only she and us and know what's really happening," the woman told the Times-Age.
The woman was unaware of the many comments posted at the networking site.