A teacher, who was fired from Curro Vanderbijlpark in Johannesburg in March 2023 for telling a pupil to stop laughing"like an idiot", has described her dismissal as"utterly unfair".
She was charged with gross misconduct which related to"conduct unbecoming of an educator" after the incident in a Grade 11 class on 16 February 2023, which occurred in the presence of other pupils.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism.
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