Barr says no school hit list

Thumper, it’s just awaiting a torching right? I wouldn’t be surprised.

kiwi, read the CT today and saw the article re: your situation. Keep us informed.

Good for you kiwi 🙂

Take them to task and hopefully a precedent will be set. If the specialist centres hadn’t been closed by the Comrade, there wouldn’t be a need for AVOs.

Hey nyssa76
We have hired a solicitor as there are now seven protection orders floating around our school but at least now people in the educ dept are starting to take notice and hopefully acting upon it. I believe there is actually a case in the supreme court now with a situation like ours regarding the dept of educ. Time will tell.

kiwi, if they are “in area” forget it. The school won’t even ask “are you sure this is the right place for you?”

Seeing as they’re not allowed to expel anyone.

I would seriously look at moving your daughter and take the AVO with you to a meeting with the other school’s principal.

In relation to your comment that my kid will be fine GnT, I’ve just got back to work after having three days off to take my daughter to the magistrates court to apply for a Protection Order against two sisters at Gold Creek. Thanks to Gold Creek and the Dept of Education who i have been in constant contact with for 12 months about these two students i now find myself in this extremely awkward position. I would have dearly loved to be as positive about this ongoing situation as you say i should, but Gold Creek is failing our students miserably by allowing these students to continually harass, intimidate, threaten and physically push around at their will. Last year the school asked me to be patient and it would sort itself out. How wrong i was to listen to them and hope that the new principal could undertake such a huge task.

Oops…mixed up the paragraphs…my bad…

Cut and paste suck.

My position was covered easily when I went on maternity leave. My Level 2’s position was not. They couldn’t find anyone in the system who was “free” to teach Japanese.

Yes you don’t have to tell Staffing until you have 10 weeks to go but most people do tell them asap. I’m not surprised that Staffing take forever. They’ve had 5 Secondary Staffing Officers in 2 years….people who do the right thing are booted out because they aren’t doing what the Dept wants i.e. Teacher living in Gungahlin is offered a Tuggeranong school.

So what did they do? They got me to teach it – yes I can speak Japanese – and had someone take my other classes.

The Dept is already saying that there are casual teachers out there without positions. Surely it wouldn’t be that hard to get them in a contract position…then again, it is the Dept…

GnT, I work at a Non-Govt school atm. They take kids with Aspergers as well as those kids who were kicked out of other Non-Govt schools.

Kiwi – give Gold Creek a break. Many issues you have a problem with are out of their control. In terms of staffing, I went on maternity leave (BTW the school may only have 10 weeks notice, not 9 months) and my position was filled with 3 subsequent contract teachers. Definitely not an ideal learning environment for the kids, but they are not allowed to fill the position permanently (the teacher on leave is entitled to return) and teachers don’t particularly want short term contracts. Maybe they couldn’t find anyone for that position?

In terms of the violent kid, I would take the kids’ report of the incident with a grain of salt, and trust that the teachers are doing their best for the welfare of all the kids. Your kid will be fine – this particular kid needs special attention. I did some pre-service teaching at a big independent school and there is NO WAY a kid like this would be there (this school refused to take a kid with Aspergers!) so unfortunately the local government school has to take them and do their best.

Keep in touch with staff at your school, and keep demanding they provide a safe and consistent learning environment for your kids. But remember that teachers are underpaid and overworked, and most really care about the kids and want them to succeed. Parents and teachers actually have the same goals, except teachers have 120 kids to take care of.

Indi, actually no. It does happen in Non-Govt schools. My school gets those “darlings” who were kicked out of the bigger Non-Govt schools but whose parents don’t want to send them to a Govt school.

You get students like the one kiwi is referring to in both systems.

kiwi, Restorative Justice is a load of PC BS.

When you are told by the executive that the child as a right to be in the classroom, just remind the executive that your child and the other children also have a right to be in a safe environment as well as the right to learn. They shouldn’t be afraid of this child nor should this child be in the school.

He should be in a programme, but thanks to the Commrade, those programmes are pretty much non-existant. Northside and Southside Support Centres are all that is left.

If it is the school I think it is, that principal got sent there because he was shite. They did the same last year with another principal.

I would, if you could, try to re-enrol your child into the school you wanted them to go to in the first place. If you are knocked back again, take it to the Dept.

If there are any more violent outbursts I would call the CEO of the Dept of Ed – not her underlings – and demand she go to the school to see what students and teachers are having to put up with, seeing as she sees ACT Education as being “excellent”.

At the risk of being heckled kiwi61, would we really expect a non-govt school to have to put up with that kind of behaviour. I’d hazard a guess that any private school principal who had a ‘file’ passed across the desk about the said little satan and I reckon he wouldn’t even have been allowed to pass through the gates.