Workplace bullying “will not be tolerated, now or ever”, Erkkila said. However, he reminded the community around the private year 7 to 13 school that investigations were still under way and the outcome couldn’t be pre-determined. Stuff Questions surround the absence of executive principal Dale Burden and deputy principal Yevette Williams, who are understood not to have been at work since just before the recent term break. After a meeting with WorkSafe, the school board took on two independent investigators who are still working out “what may or may not have occurred”, and if there had been bullying behaviour towards staffers.