TRA report<\/a> explaining the details of the case and published on Friday.<\/p>\nThe panel found the head also sent “malicious” emails to colleagues from anonymous accounts questioning their integrity. <\/p>\n
One witness told the misconduct hearing that the head applied the work-from-home policy to up to 20 “extremely difficult students”, some of whom were sent home for “long periods of time”. <\/p>\n
It was said that the policy’s intention was to reduce the school’s exclusion figures and improve attendance data. <\/p>\n
An email from the head teacher to staff, showed to the panel, told how he wanted to “inconvenience” the mother of one pupil by suggesting they only attend school at 09:00 and 14:00 each day to collect work and receive an attendance mark. <\/p>\n
In the email, he said this would “mean our attendance is not hit” and “gives colleagues some respite” from the girl’s “appalling behaviour”.<\/p>\n
The head did not attend the misconduct hearing, but in a written submission he denied the policy was adopted to reduce exclusion figures and improve attendance.<\/p>\n
However, he conceded it “would have that effect”. <\/p>\n
The panel also found the head had sent anonymous emails to staff which “appeared to seek to undermine or deride” them.<\/p>\n
In a further written submission, his representative said the head felt “considerable remorse and embarrassment” for sending the emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The head teacher’s actions aimed to reduce the school’s exclusion figures, according to a misconduct panel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-362870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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