Spare the Spray, Spoil the Child

Here's one way not to curry the favor of your students and their parents.

A teacher sprayed air freshener over Asian pupils she described as smelling of curry in the mornings, a tribunal heard yesterday.

Elizabeth Davies, 48, was accused of humiliating children aged from three to six by using the aerosol during nursery class.

The hearing was told she accused Bangladeshi children of smelling of onions or curry and would say: ‘There is a waft coming in from paradise.’

Mrs Davies is also accused of spraying pupils who broke wind, of washing children’s hands with disinfectant and of making those who wet themselves stand on newspaper.

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Mrs Davies, a nursery school teacher for 20 years, taught at an inner-city school where more than half of her pupils were Bangladeshi.

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Mother-of-two Mrs Islam said the spray was 'usually' for children who spoke English as a second language.

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She said: 'He told his mother at the school gates that he had farted and that Mrs Davies had sprayed air freshener over him. He thought it was funny and he was happy and cheerful about it.'

[Daily Mail]