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Teacher who threatened 'do you want to go home on crutches?' and called two Chinese pupils 'ching' and 'chong' is banned from teaching for three years

Tommy Chong's name was used as a racial slur against a Chinese pupil by supply teacher Anton Van Der Watt, who also punched a pupil from behind and put his fist on another's neck.
Tommy Chong's name was used as a racial slur against a Chinese pupil by supply teacher Anton Van Der Watt, who also punched a pupil from behind and put his fist on another's neck.
Brine Leas School in Nantwich, Cheshire, where Van Der Watt threatened to rip a pupil's vocal chords out and feed them to lions during his only day at the school.
Brine Leas School in Nantwich, Cheshire, where Van Der Watt threatened to rip a pupil's vocal chords out and feed them to lions during his only day at the school.

Anton Van Der Watt, 66, managed it all in three consecutive lessons on his first and only day at Brine Leas School in Nantwich, Cheshire, and was sent home by lunchtime. A Teaching Regulation Agency panel found he put his fist on one pupil's neck, punched another from behind and told a pupil of African origin he 'would not have been allowed in your classroom'.

'It did hurt': Pupil A on being pinched in the neck by supply teacher Anton Van Der Watt.

Anton Van Der Watt, supply teacher, threatened to 'rip your vocal chords out' and feed them to lions.

'This not my style,' supply teacher Anton Van Der Watt wrote in his apology to regulators.

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