A hearing has been shown shocking footage of the moment a stressed out north east teacher “lost it”, slammed a pupil into a wall and called him a dwarf.
Fraserburgh Academy teacher Christopher Butcher called the secondary school student a “dwarf”, grabbed his shoulder and pushed him into the wall.
The two minute video was shown to a General Teaching Council disciplinary hearing this week, where the 61-year-old admitted all four charges against him.
The video shows Mr Butcher, who had taught for 31 years without incident, bringing a “really small” pupil into the corridor at Fraserburgh Academy before standing just 30cm from the youngster and shouting at him.
When the pupil tries to walk away Butcher then grabs him by the shoulder, swings him around and slams him into the corridor wall.
Butcher then continues shouting at the pupil until other teachers appear in the corridor and Butcher returns to his classroom.
Mr Butcher, admitted the clip left him feeling “dreadfully ashamed”.
One teacher said in a statement to the GTCS that Butcher said “I just lost it”, or words to that effect, after the incident.
Mr Butcher, who was present while the footage was played, kept glancing at his desk when the CCTV was shown for the second time.
He accepted all charges, which stated that on Monday 24 June 2013, he called a student a “dwarf”, “stupid” and “inhuman”, and “grabbed him by the shoulder and pushed him back into a wall with a closed fist”.
The teacher was immediately dismissed by Aberdeenshire Council at a disciplinary hearing following the incident.
Mr Butcher appealed the decision, but then decided to resign from his position at the school.