<h2>A primary school teacher who tried to trick a female colleague into giving and receiving “four hard swats on the bottom using a school paddle” has lost his teacher registration.</h2>
<p>The female trainee teacher was told by her male colleague that the spanking session was part of a university study on corporal punishment, the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal judgement said, and she was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement.</p>
<p>In June 2016, the respondent had shown Ms A a letter from a university, purportedly about a study of corporal punishment, the tribunal said.</p>
<p>&#8220;However, the letter was a forgery, the respondent having used the letterhead from another study to create the letter which detailed the fictitious study.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shortly afterwards, the respondent showed a second forged document to Ms A, again using the university letterhead.</p>
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<p>“The second letter detailed the corporal punishment study and stated each participant would have to give the other &#8216;four hard swats on the bottom using a school paddle&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The judgement said Ms A had become &#8220;extremely uncomfortable&#8221; and hadtold the school&#8217;s principal who contacted the university, only to discover that the study was false.</p>
<p>When subsequently facing the school&#8217;s disciplinary process, the man said he had &#8220;fantasised about corporal punishment between adults&#8221;. He also apologised to his colleague, acknowledging his actions were &#8220;nothing short of dishonest and self-serving&#8221;.</p>
<p>After the police were contacted, the man was later convicted of forgery.</p>
<p>According to the tribunal, the man accepted that his offending warranted loss of his teacher registration.</p>
<p>&#8220;This type of behaviour is the antithesis of the standard of honesty expected of teachers. Second, there can be no doubt that the respondent&#8217;s behaviour is of a nature that brings the teaching profession into disrepute.&#8221;</p>

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