India, Oct. 7 -- A 35-year-old teacher in the United States has been banned from teaching indefinitely after allegedly slapping a student who laughed at a classmate struggling to answer a question. Bernard Aquilina, a computer science teacher at Cove Secondary School in Hampshire, was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct following an internal investigation and disciplinary hearing. He was removed from the school in May 2024 and is now banned from teaching in England.

According to a report by The Independent, the incident took place on 5 February 2024. The student who was struck told investigators that another student had been called to answer a question after not paying attention, prompting him to laugh. "I laughed because h...