Schools suspends teacher and pupil involved in fracas
The teacher and pupil involved in a fracas in a Cape Town high school classroom have been suspended. According to a TimesLIVE report, a video of the argument at Sans Souci Girls' High School in Newlands that culminated in a shoving match and the teacher slapping the Grade 9 pupil went viral this week.
Jessica Shelver, the spokesperson for Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer, said yesterday: ‘The learner and the educator are not at school today. They have both been informed by the school governing body that disciplinary steps will be taken against them. They have been suspended pending the disciplinary hearing.’
Shelver said pupils and teachers at Sans Souci had been offered counselling and the school was investigating programmes to help teachers with ‘management of discipline’.
Police have confirmed that the teacher and pupil had opened criminal cases against each other. In the video, the teacher can be seen and heard embroiled in an argument with the pupil over a book.
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