UnSubRocky
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Amazing how 26 years, and an overseas culture is so different to what I went through. In my year 8 class, we had this Art teacher who was a former heroin addict. Not that his former drug use was the problem. He had been clean for 5 years. The problem was that in the first class with him, he established himself as an aggressive and potentially violent person with a psychopathic disorder. Some of it I put down to him having a ptsd from a near death experience with drug use. Others I put down to him having a sociopathic religious cult lady that he worked with at the school -- one who helped him get off the drugs. The rest I contend was that he was some sort of sexual pervert with a severe inferiority complex.
Yet, for most part, he lead with put downs and sexual harassment. It was like being in military school with a drill sargeant. The worst he got was when he attacked a student with false accusations. When he finally found out that he was wrong, he acted like it was the student's fault for not telling him what he did not know. Things were never his fault. Then, his behaviour was petty when he asked the male students to "tuck in the dresses". When some of the students finally had enough of the poor behaviour, they took their complaints up with the deputy principal, her response was to just call the complainants liars -- 3 day suspensions each. The fact that this teacher did not get fired is amazing. I guess the deputy principal was too scared herself to face him.
Teachers are so protected with their jobs then. I would assume that the need for teachers these days means that teachers are more protected with their jobs today. Considering the nature of complaint against the featured teacher in the article, he should sue for discrimination against the student for sexual harassment. He/she mislead the teacher to the point that his accidentally misread his/her gender. If it turns out that the teacher originally correctly identified the gender of the student, he should be compensated without prejudice. If it was a matter of the student's complaint being merely one of mistaken gender preference, then an apology is more than sufficient, but not required. He/she should have made that clear to the teacher.
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