Facing the music

What little respect I had for the Teachers Council has well and truly diminished after reading (Weekend Herald, August 13) about the outcome of a disciplinary hearing.

A teacher was disciplined for removing the earbuds of a student who was repeatedly asked to take them out. The student is deemed to have his well-being adversely affected and the teaching profession brought into disrepute.

With all that is going on in teaching, this is the best my professional body can do? Teaching Council please stop wasting my money and bringing the teaching profession into disrepute. The teacher should have been applauded, not disciplined.

Chris Bayes, Torbay. good on him. Had these been bought by first home buyers, it would reduce demand for rentals by 51 families that would create a stable environment for work, school and the community.

Jonathan and his like don’t help productivity, and create more transient communities as renters come and go.

I do wish we had a law where you, your trust or interests could only span two properties. It would create more stable communities and mum and dads could still have passive income during retirement and help those who don’t want to grow roots in our neighbourhood.

Simply, the more houses available to owner-occupiers, the more stable our society will be.

And it would free up $20m of Brownlee’s money to invest in manufacturing etc.