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Teacher who told pupil, 9, he’d ‘end up stacking shelves’ cleared of misconduct

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The teacher reportedly made the comments while working at Queen Eleanor’s C of E Junior School in Surrey (Picture: Google)

A primary school teacher who was sacked after telling a nine-year-old he would ‘end up stacking shelves’ has been cleared of misconduct.

Steven Walker, 32, reportedly also made his class play a game of ‘girl touch’ and punished two pupils by making them face the wall at Queen Eleanor’s C of E School in Guildford, Surrey.

He told boys during the ‘touch girl’ dare game: ‘It won’t be long before you will want girls touching you all of the time,’ reported the Mirror.

The teacher, from Sunderland, was accused of warning a young pupil, who struggled with maths, that he would end up stacking shelves if he didn’t focus.

Following the allegations, he was suspended before being fired for the behaviour after working at the school since 2017.

In defence of his actions, Mr Walker said he was on ‘heavy-duty antibiotics’ while suffering with septic arthritis and had been stressed at the time, reported the paper.

He said: ‘I made some errors. I ought to have picked my words more wisely.

‘I’m a decent and honest bloke who’s lost almost two years of his life because he made a mistake.’

In a Teaching Regulation Agency hearing this week, a panel ruled that although his behaviour was inappropriate, it was forgivable.

Now Mr Walker hopes to return to teaching.

But the school’s Good Shepherd Trust said that their allegations against the teacher had been proven and were a sackable offence.



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