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Subscriber only A teacher accused of awarding a student an A in exchange for revealing photos is one of dozens of Queensland educators struck off last year for committing serious offences or posing a dangerous risk to their pupils. The Courier-Mail can reveal since the beginning of 2020 the Queensland College of Teachers has taken action against 42 teachers, with 29 struck off in 2019 and 21 in 2018. Many were accused of engaging in sexual or intimate relationships with current or former students, including one 34-year-old sports coach who exchanged more than 44,000 iMessages with a student over nine months.
A Queensland teacher has been banned from applying for registration or permission to teach until the end of the year after he was suspended by the College of Teachers for inappropriate sexual messages with several former students.
Teacher exchanged sexual images with ex-students A teacher who stepped over the line, chatting with ex-students about sex and drugs and exchanging sexual images, has been given a disciplinary ban.
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Subscriber only A teacher who had inappropriate chats with former students about sex, drugs, alcohol and steroid use has been banned from reapplying for registration for almost three years. The man, who had been registered since 2002 and taught at a Queensland secondary college for more than eight years, was suspended in February, 2019. The teacher initiated or continued electronic contact with three former students of the college, who had graduated in 2017 and 2018, without a valid or educational reason, a tribunal heard.
A woman who was groomed by a paedophile teacher as a teenager has opened up on the years of sexual abuse she suffered at his hands.
Sarah was just 15 years old when she met Design and Technology teacher Darren Clinckett at a school in Redlands, Brisbane s south-east, in 2008.
The young schoolgirl had been juggling bullying taunts from her peers and trouble at home when Clinckett took advantage of her vulnerable position and began to groom her.
It began with an exchange of notes and five months later Clinckett had gained Sarah s trust, Courier Mail reported.
He convinced her family that he would organise for their daughter to be placed into a church family, before secretly moving her to his Redland Bay unit.