Ex-rugby player fired from teaching job over misconduct allegations to return to work [Video]

• Former rugby player was fired from teaching role at school for alleged ‘serious misconduct’ in October. 
• Yesterday, a school commissioner reinstated him after reviewing the dismissal. 
• The former board of trustees’ presiding member has described the commissioner’s decision as ‘a disgrace’ and gone to Education Minister Erica Stanford. 

A former rugby player fired from his teaching role for alleged serious misconduct during an U15 rugby trip has been reinstated by a school official after the school’s board of trustees’ parent representatives resigned en-masse amid acrimonious fallout from the sacking. 

In a notice sent to the north Waikato Onewhero Area School community yesterday, Ministry of Education-appointed commissioner Brad Totorewa said he’d decided to reinstate the teacher. 

“[The teacher] … will be returning on Monday,” Totorewa wrote in a decision, which is now the subject of a complaint by the former board’s presiding member to Education Minister Erica Stanford and others. 

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