A teacher censured for asking students inappropriate questions, including “How long would you wait to have sex with a dead girl?”, has now been suspended from his teaching role in Australia.<\/p>\n
Teacher Jason Morgan made multiple sexual comments to students while working as a boarding house assistant at a New Zealand school in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Teachers\u2019 Disciplinary Tribunal was only able to censure him, because he had moved overseas and was teaching at Chanel College in Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\n
The tribunal decision said the Queensland College of Teachers (QCT) was aware of Morgan\u2019s teaching background.<\/p>\n
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
“For him to be teaching again is completely unacceptable for a man who has made sexual jokes.<\/p>\n
“I highly recommend Chanel College do change their mind as he should be terminated from teaching and any job that involves kids.”<\/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
“The college has recently become aware of concerns relating to one of our teachers while in a previous role at a school overseas,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“The staff member has been suspended from all duties while the matter is being investigated.”<\/p>\n
They said the college had notified the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n
“The safety and well-being of our students remain our highest priority.”<\/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 “thought of the day”.<\/p>\n
The “thought of the day” was a way to wind down students before bed.<\/p>\n
The students said comments made by Morgan during these discussions included, “Would you have regular sex with a seven out of 10 or have a one-night stand with a nine out of 10?” and, “Would you sleep with an absolute 10 out of 10 if she was crazy as?”<\/p>\n
The decision states he also asked, “How long would you wait to have sex with a dead girl?”<\/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 “come on your mum\u2019s back”, 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, “Be careful you … boys don\u2019t f*** [goats]”.<\/p>\n
Morgan voluntarily resigned after the complaint. He has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Brianna McIlraith, Open Justice reporter\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher censured for asking students inappropriate questions, including “How long would you wait to have sex with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-329221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329221","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=329221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}