A former student of Morgan\u2019s at the time of the incidents told NZME he was shocked to hear Morgan was still teaching in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor him to be teaching again is completely unacceptable for a man who has made sexual jokes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI highly recommend Chanel College do change their mind as he should be terminated from teaching and any job that involves kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former student alleged that more comments were made, beyond what was mentioned in the tribunal\u2019s decision, which made students at the time uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
However, a Catholic Education \u2013 Diocese of Rockhampton spokesperson, who oversees the Queensland school at which Morgan was teaching, has now told NZME that he has been suspended.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe college has recently become aware of concerns relating to one of our teachers while in a previous role at a school overseas,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe staff member has been suspended from all duties while the matter is being investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n
They said the college had notified the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety and well-being of our students remain our highest priority.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for QCT said it could not comment on any individual\u2019s teacher registration or matters of professional conduct.<\/p>\n
At the time of the misconduct, Morgan was a teacher and boarding house assistant at a school that cannot be identified.<\/p>\n
During Term 1 and 2, Morgan made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature while in his capacity as house assistant, specifically at the end of the day when they shared a \u201cthought of the day\u201d.<\/p>\n
The \u201cthought of the day\u201d was a way to wind down students before bed.<\/p>\n
The students said comments made by Morgan during these discussions included, \u201cWould you have regular sex with a seven out of 10 or have a one-night stand with a nine out of 10?\u201d and, \u201cWould you sleep with an absolute 10 out of 10 if she was crazy as?\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision states he also asked, \u201cHow long would you wait to have sex with a dead girl?\u201d<\/p>\n
Morgan also engaged in banter and jokes with a student over several days, while other students were present.<\/p>\n
During this exchange, Morgan told the student that he would \u201ccome on your mum\u2019s back\u201d, the decision stated. <\/p>\n
After Morgan made the comment, he apologised to the student.<\/p>\n
Later that month, Morgan made inappropriate comments in front of several students when speaking about hunting. He reportedly said, \u201cBe careful you … boys don\u2019t f*** [goats]\u201d.<\/p>\n
Morgan voluntarily resigned after the complaint. He has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n
Brianna McIlraith is a Queenstown-based reporter for Open Justice covering courts in the lower South Island. She has been a journalist since 2018 and has had a strong interest in business and financial journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former student of Morgan\u2019s at the time of the incidents told NZME he was shocked to hear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1135,27079,12784,29116,11212,111,43,139,69,1517,7680,3767,12061,11227,7574,6847,102],"class_list":["post-328370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-australian","tag-censured","tag-college","tag-jason","tag-morgan","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reveals","tag-sex","tag-students","tag-suspends","tag-talk","tag-teacher","tag-tribunal","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}