A primary schoolteacher has been banned from working for allowing children to hug him.

Mark Pullinger, 41, was also accused of playing with a pupil by swinging her around by her arms.

Following complaints from colleagues, he was told that he had "failed to maintain physical boundaries with female pupils".

Although there was no suggestion of any sexual motive, he was dismissed from the school where he had worked for eight years.

Parents campaigned to overturn the decision, saying he was an excellent teacher who had been unfairly treated because he is a man.

Yet his appeal against dismissal was rejected by a panel of governors at Oliver's Battery school in Winchester, Hampshire, and now the General Teaching Council (GTC) has banned him from classrooms indefinitely - even though it acknowledged that there was "no single serious episode" and that "no child has been seriously harmed".

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationn...-pupils-hug-him.html

Dear God how dumb can these people get? There is nothing wrong with hugging. In fact, hugging is a very positive thing. Can these morons not differentiate between a hug (which makes a child feel good and loved) and raping a child (which is bad and hurts the child) I mean, is it really that hard?

Only in a very sick, twisted society would hugging be a crime. And people complain that there aren't many male teachers. Uh hello - this is why!

Ted wrote:
A primary schoolteacher has been banned from working for allowing children to hug him.

Mark Pullinger, 41, was also accused of playing with a pupil by swinging her around by her arms.

Following complaints from colleagues, he was told that he had "failed to maintain physical boundaries with female pupils".

Although there was no suggestion of any sexual motive, he was dismissed from the school where he had worked for eight years.

Parents campaigned to overturn the decision, saying he was an excellent teacher who had been unfairly treated because he is a man.

Yet his appeal against dismissal was rejected by a panel of governors at Oliver's Battery school in Winchester, Hampshire, and now the General Teaching Council (GTC) has banned him from classrooms indefinitely - even though it acknowledged that there was "no single serious episode" and that "no child has been seriously harmed".

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationn...-pupils-hug-him.html

Dear God how dumb can these people get? There is nothing wrong with hugging. In fact, hugging is a very positive thing. Can these morons not differentiate between a hug (which makes a child feel good and loved) and raping a child (which is bad and hurts the child) I mean, is it really that hard?

Only in a very sick, twisted society would hugging be a crime. And people complain that there aren't many male teachers. Uh hello - this is why!

Welcome to the sad world of beaucratic silly Britain! Where sucessive governments compete to make life harder and harder for us mere mortals to do the job that needs doing.

only Show Biz folk can hug and kiss..anyone else is a pervert.

This is the dumbest thing ever! Hugging is a way to show appreciation, empathy and people use it to comfort others. This is the most unfair thing to be done to an innocent person.

They're just child abusers, pure and simple. They're not 'beurocrats trying to protect children'. They're child abusers.

There is an agenda behind this to destabilise society - in order to give more power to the government and the police, and to line the pockets of those in the child abuse industry.