Queensland teachers need to be protected from the lies that are being told about them by naughty children and malicious school principals.
How many Queensland teachers have their health and their careers destroyed by students who make false / joke "allegations" against their teachers?
Or by malicious school principals who claim that "confidential" allegations have been made against teachers?
How many classroom teachers who disclose child abuse by another teacher are later "paidback" by having false allegations made against them?
What action has been taken by the Queensland Department of Education, the Queensland Teachers' Union and the Queensland College of Teachers to deal with students and principals who make false allegations about classroom teachers?
Children need to be protected from abuse.
But Queensland teachers also need to be protected from the lies of naughty children and malicious school principals.
False allegations cost me the job I loved.
I was sacked from my teaching job because false allegations were levelled at me.
I had worked as a teacher for 15 years in early childhood, a boarding school supervisor for seven years and outside school hours care for 11 years, all with high commendation.
None of this came into it, when these allegations were made by one individual.
My family, friends and I feel deeply let down by the biased legal system, the union ( for which I was a rep. at my school) and the education system for their lack of support.
Both the complainant and I know the truth and this never came out.
Teachers beware, I'd heard stories, but never thought it would happen to me.
This family cost me the job I loved.
Innocent of The Sunshine Coast, Readers Comments, S*x-accused teachers slip through, Alison Sandy, The Courier-Mail, 26 October, 2009
Children make up stories about their teachers and, under Queensland law, it is near impossible to stop the speeding train of prosecution.
I am the wife of a man who was falsely accused and prosecuted for child sexual abuse.
The allegations against my husband were thrown out of court as the "child's" lies were discovered.
The "child" was 16 years old by the time that the truth came out.
Yes, we do need to go after real child abusers.
But it is easy for children to make up stories for their own agendas, and under Queensland law, it is near impossible to stop the speeding train of prosecution.
After four years of hell, we are just thankful we made it through to the other end with our family and our marriage intact.
I finished high school 25 years ago, but I can still remember some of the teenage girls swooning and flirting with all of the young male teachers.
I felt so sorry for the teachers being put in that position.
Mel, Readers' Comments:Predatory teachers wreck lives, Sarah Vogler and Paula Doneman, The Sunday Mail, 16 August, 2009.
