A teacher who kicked the back-side of a Year 9 student with a hearing impairment because he wasn't listening has kept his job.
Peter Charles Rowlingson also has to pay more than $3000 for the costs of the New Zealand Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal hearings and processes and was censured for serious misconduct.
On November 11, 2015, Mr Rowlingson, a technology teacher at Melville High School in Hamilton, grew incensed when a student wouldn't listen to his instructions to stop throwing pieces of metal.
He told the disciplinary sub-committee that the student, known as Student A, along with others were throwing triangles of aluminium and washers around the room.
The teacher asked them to stop as he thought it was dangerous.