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Let me see if I have this correct - tailgating a schoolbus, doing burnouts in a school carpark, swearing at kids in his classroom, leaving the kids unsupervised and letting the kids do dangerous things (ie standing on tables)...
Why could i get a teacher like that?
Seriosly... a teacher is setting the wrong example to the students and should be ban. I think he going to be better off friding another line of work like a trades person.
Banned teacher Alf Hickey battles to get his job back
* Teacher banned for tailgating bus, swearing
* Hoping to have ban overturned
* "Abso-friggin-lutely" a good teacher
A "HOON" teacher banned for tailgating a school bus, swearing at children and allowing students to stand on tables says he deserves another chance to front a classroom.
Alf Hickey, 36, hopes to overturn a Victorian Institute of Teaching ban through the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Tuesday.
Mr Hickey, a woodwork teacher, was deregistered in February over a long list of bizarre behaviour during a six-month stint at Vermont Secondary College in 2007, the Sunday Herald Sun reports.
A VIT hearing found Mr Hickey turned up 90 minutes late on his first day, left classes unsupervised and said "f---" when yelling at students.
It also found Mr Hickey let students stand on tables in class, did not call in sick when he failed to arrive and tailgated a school bus on a year 9 camp to Phillip Island. Mr Hickey admitted to the Sunday Herald Sun doing "wheelies" in a school car park and that a colleague had called him a "hoon" over his driving on the school camp.
But Mr Hickey said he did not do anything wrong, despite saying at the time there was "so much dust the bus driver could not have seen us".
"If I'm a hoon, they are a bunch of goons," he said.
Mr Hickey said he was "abso-friggin-lutely" a good teacher.
"If you outshine people when you come to a school, people will try to knock you down," he said.
The VIT panel has allowed Mr Hickey to reapply for his registration at any time.
But Mr Hickey said the VCAT action was a separate matter to clear his reputation.
VIT would not comment.
Let me see if I have this correct - tailgating a schoolbus, doing burnouts in a school carpark, swearing at kids in his classroom, leaving the kids unsupervised and letting the kids do dangerous things (ie standing on tables)...
Why could i get a teacher like that?
Seriosly... a teacher is setting the wrong example to the students and should be ban. I think he going to be better off friding another line of work like a trades person.