A Teaching Regulation Agency hearing has described a school deputy head’s shooting of a pupil as a “momentary lapse” and ruled that he can carry on teaching. Simon Gitlin shot the student in the abdomen and leg with plastic pellets from an airgun at a private school’s shooting club in Macclesfield, Cheshire in January 2019. The student had asked what it would feel like to be shot before running around, shouting, “shoot me”. Gitlin resigned from the school and, in June 2019, was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay victim compensation £125 after being charged with common assault. |