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Sad. I don't think one regrettable moment should cost you your job. We need less cancel culture, not more.

Alarming. Immigrant childcare teacher fired for kissing preschoolers on lips says language issues prevented him from ‘understanding it was inappropriate’. Ankui Gui was finally dismissed after inappropriate behaviour over multiple occasions between April and May 2021, Gui engaged in inappropriate physical contact with several children. Complaints had been received from children from two different learning centres in NZ. It included kissing a 3-year-old child on the lips on at least two occasions and kissing the hand of another 4-year-old child. At least one child felt uncomfortable enough to report the conduct to her parents, who then alerted staff. Despite being warned about the inappropriateness of such conduct while working at New Shoots, Gui continued to engage in similar conduct at Pascals. At the hearing, the tribunal heard from one of Gui’s former colleagues, who said she had seen him kiss a 3-year-old boy on the lips on two occasions. Another teacher at the centre said she watched Gui nuzzle his head into a 3-year-old girl’s chest while she was standing on a wooden box on the playground. Australia which relaxed early education and child care regulations, has recently experienced a significant increase in sexual abuse in preschool centres discovering pedophile rings which horrifically led to thousands of toddlers being screened for STI’s. David Seymour as assistant education minister has worked on reforms to make it easier for workers to become registered as early child care workers, and weirdly removed the regulation that early childcare teachers are to have separate toilets from pupils. Seymour argued that this was a cost saving move. The NZ- India FTA specifically has provisions for early child care workers.

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