No matter what the 'salary and status' of teachers, you only have to have one individual make a vexatious or malicious claim and your whole life is down the sewer. You are denied natural justice. The burden of proof is totally reversed. Someone told me that they'd seen a press report in late February or early March that there had been 400 complaints against teachers so far this year. That is 100 a week.
Morale is through the floor.
When I asked Year 11 students whether they would become teachers, they just laughed. It is a good job ruined. When Carey was suspended, Dubbo High School's 500 students walked out of school and joined a rally of 500 other protestors outside the education department's offices. Alongside the students, Dubbo High School teachers have held stopwork meetings to condemn Carey's suspension. The extent of community anger has resulted in the local media, community leaders and even state Labor members of parliament condemning the Carr government and the education department.