{"id":352559,"date":"2026-03-28T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/352559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:55:08","slug":"teacher-jason-morgan-censured-for-sex-comments-to-nz-students-loses-job-at-australian-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/352559\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Jason Morgan, censured for sex comments to NZ students, loses job at Australian school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Chanel College, in Gladstone, about 100km southeast of Rockhampton, was made aware of Morgan\u2019s behaviour, it has let him go.<\/p>\n

\u2018Thought of the day\u2019<\/p>\n

According to a recently released tribunal decision<\/a> in New Zealand, Morgan was working as a boarding house assistant and would get the students to share a \u201cthought of the day\u201d as a way to wind down before bedtime. The intention was to have a low-energy conversation.<\/p>\n

But two Year 10 students reported Morgan to the unnamed school\u2019s director of boarding after the thought of the day became sexual.<\/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 the course of several days, while other students were present.<\/p>\n

He apologised to the student after making a sexual comment about the child\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n

The tribunal found Morgan had committed serious misconduct but, because he was teaching in Australia, it could do no more than censure him.<\/p>\n

At the time of the hearing, he was a teacher at St Patrick\u2019s College in Shorncliffe, north of Brisbane. He moved to Chanel College, a Catholic co-educational school, in January.<\/p>\n

The tribunal decision said the Queensland College of Teachers was aware of his background.<\/p>\n

But the Catholic Education – Diocese of Rockhampton (CEDR), which oversees Chanel College, said the school was unaware of this when he started teaching there. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time of his employment, Mr Morgan held current registration with the Queensland College of Teachers, the statutory authority responsible for regulating the teaching profession in Queensland.<\/p>\n

\u201cCEDR and Chanel College were not aware of the information contained in the tribunal decision prior to his appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n

CEDR became aware of the decision on March 11 after NZME contacted the school. It notified the Queensland College of Teachers, and Morgan was suspended<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now he has been let go from his role.<\/p>\n

\u201cCEDR confirms that Mr Morgan is no longer an employee of Chanel College, Gladstone, or Catholic Education \u2013 Diocese of Rockhampton.”<\/p>\n

It said the safety and protection of students was its highest priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe college is working closely with the school community to provide appropriate pastoral support.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Queensland College of Teachers said it could not comment on any individual\u2019s teacher registration or matters of professional conduct.<\/p>\n

The Teaching Council of New Zealand said it was confident that the statement regarding evidence in the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal decision was accurate about the Queensland College of Teachers being aware of the allegations against Morgan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf any further concerns were raised through a mandatory report, this would be assessed and, where appropriate, investigated in line with our usual processes.\u201d<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since Chanel College, in Gladstone, about 100km southeast of Rockhampton, was made aware of Morgan\u2019s behaviour, it has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27518,1975,85,1135,1558,27079,5782,690,2082,71,6868,305,29116,3112,2190,11517,11212,111,43,139,69,4062,7680,3767,7574,27406,1318,61,5273,102,80],"class_list":["post-352559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-asking","tag-at","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-been","tag-censured","tag-comments","tag-dead","tag-for","tag-from","tag-girl","tag-have","tag-jason","tag-job","tag-long","tag-loses","tag-morgan","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-school","tag-sex","tag-students","tag-teacher","tag-teaching","tag-theyd","tag-to","tag-wait","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352559","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=352559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}