Sit on students to make them listen says Moon

Neil Moon has today been caught out encouraging the physical assault of students at Carenne Special School by staff. In an audio recording, Neil Moon can be heard encouraging Di Klavins to sit across the legs of a student while Michael Auld spoke to them.

Moon can be heard in the recording saying "Just sit on the bastard Di, Michael needs to talk to him and he needs to listen."

In the recording, the student can be heard screaming in pain saying that his legs are numb from having Klavins sit on him. According to Carenne Special School staff, Mrs Klavins weighs approximately 160 Kg, a similar weight to a small cow. Anyone who has had their toes tread on by a cow would know it can be quite a painful experience. Imagine that cow laying across your legs.

Moon, obviously knowing that the method of restraint was wrong told Klavins "Make sure you don't bruise him."

With a principal like Loonie Moon at the helm of Carenne there is no wonder that the school has serious issues with staff abusing students. It's time for Heavy Harvey to take serious action and clean the school out.

Di Klavins in the firing line

Carenne Gate can reveal that the KLAN at Carenne School are planning on removing Dianne Klavins from her School Learning Support Officer position after she made a series of complaints about Michael Auld.

Klavins has made a series of complaints about Auld's favoritism of some students, ineffective classroom discipline, lack of structure and poor teaching style. Klavins has reported several occasions where Auld has left the classroom for over half an hour during teaching times. Neil Moon's response to the complaints has been to claim they are baseless or that he investigated and found nothing.

It has long been known that Auld is being protected by school staff, with parents complaining about his lack of results with most students. He has been described as ineffective yet remains a teacher. Auld has a history of poor results and students going backwards. Unfortunately got anyone who complains about him, they soon find their job in jeopardy, with the complainant being persecuted.

In the case of Klavins, her dismissal won't be difficult with her past history of student abuse.

Luther and Klavins allow student to menace others

Ros Luther and Di Klavins, staff who have been identified as sitting on an autistic student, calling the police on him to menace him and locking him in a storeroom continue to be selective in their practices with another student in their class being allowed to wander the school and menace other students.

Mrs Luther and Mrs Klavins have already been exposed for giving special treatment to the particular student because of who his parents are.

The student is allowed to assault staff and wander through the school grounds menacing younger students. Some younger students are afraid to leave their classroom to even go to the toilet because of the student. Some are even beginning to become apprehensive about going to school for fear that they will be attacked by the student.

The difference in treatment between students at Carenne is frightening. During Lynette Duncan's tenure as principal, she suspended another autistic student for a period lasting months for behaviour which was far less serious as this student, again the student's parents were not closely associated with the school.

It is about time the Department of Education and Training look at the inconsistent and unfair discipline procedures at the school.

Ros Luther and Di Klavins change tactics in dealing with student.

Over the past several months, Carenne Gate has reported on very serious concerns surrounding the way in which Ros Luther and Di Klavins dealt with an autistic students. The duo first came to our attention when it was reported that they would sit on an autistic student and call the police on him (only to get off him when they were warned the police had arrived).

Commentators on this site also alleged that Mrs Luther had been seen pinning the student against a wall and locking the student in a storeroom.

It was reported by this blog two weeks ago that Mrs Luther and Mrs Klavins weren't applying these same techniques to another student in their class who's mother was involved in Carenne Support, the school's corrupt charity. Instead the pair would call the student's mother who would try to calm him down.

The student is now restrained and then locked in what we have identified as the torture chamber until his parents arrive to take him home. When his parents arrive at the school, office staff call the classroom and they take the student out of the torture chamber/sensory room/storeroom.

"Torture chamber" in Ros Luther's classroom

Several weeks ago, it was commented on this blog that Michael Auld was planning on misappropriating Rudd computer funding to create a "sensory room" at Carenne. It was alleged that he must have siphoned the money off elsewhere because the room hadn't been created. It was also alleged that Ros Luther and Dianne Klavins had been locking a severely autistic student in a storeroom.

It has been learned by Carenne Gate that the storeroom in Ros Luther's classroom has been converted to a mock sensory room. The room, which is around 2 metres by 3 metres according to staff has students locked in there for up to one hour at a time while they are observed using a camera mounted inside the room.

Concerned Carenne staff have contacted Carenne Gate and reported that students are terrified of the room due to its small size and the items inside it. One staff member commented -
"Tuesday afternoon, Di Klavins was bragging to me about how they were watching this student that they usually sit on in the room on the camera bashing at the door wanting to get out, laughing at him. When they let him out they called him 'chicken' and when he had a melt down placed him back into the room until his parents picked him up."

Another staff member said -
"I approached Neil Moon about it and told him that it was nothing more than a torture chamber. That is all it is. They put kids in there and watch them on a camera, laughing at them when they freak out. It's sick and twisted. It's another of Michael and Ros' torture methods,"

"When I told Lee about it she was horrified."

It is yet another example of the complete and utter incompetence of staff at Carenne Special School.

Ros Luther and Di Klavins give special treatment to one student

Staff at Carenne Special School concerned about the policy of restraining a student in the class of Ros Luther and Di Klavins' by having several staff sit on him have expressed dismay at the way in which a student with a similar disorder is treated by comparison.

Staff claim that another student can be equally as difficult when he is having an autistic episode and that instead of calling for backup staff to come and sit on him, they simply call his mother. Staff believe the special treatment comes from his mother's involvement in Carenne Support.

Staff claim that prior to the student's mother's involvement in Carenne Support that he would be subjected to similar barbaric punishments such as locked outside in the area identified as the pig pen, locked in a storeroom or pinned against the wall.

These types of punishments and strategies must be stopped before someone is seriously injured and Carenne Gate will continue to call for change at Carenne Special School. We also feel that staff involved such as Ros Luther and Di Klavins, who users on this blog have called "monsters" must be immediately dismissed.

Carenne continues to sit on students, call police on them

Staff of the senior section of Carenne Special School continue to use outdated methods for dealing with autistic students. It has been reported that once again today, a student in Ros Luther and Di Klavin's class was subjected to being sat on by a number of staff before having the Police called on him to terrorise him further.

Staff complain that it has become a regular occurrence supported by principal Neil Moon for autistic students to be sat on by much larger adults.

When Police arrived at the school, staff which were sitting on top of the student were warned by office staff that Police had arrived and to get off the student indicating that they are well aware that their actions are probably illegal and are child abuse. Staff refused to tell Police that they had been sitting on the student for almost an hour until they arrived.

It has also been reported that Ros Luther has asked for a male aide to work with the student, who she described as being a "bastard" but Neil Moon would only approve an aide for a few hours every week.

It shows the continuing child abuse and neglect going on with the support of senior education department staff, Verity Firth and Gerard Martin at Carenne.

Carenne electrical work performed by relative

It has been revealed by Carenne whistleblower "nedkelly" that former principal Terrence Mahony bypassed the department's proper maintenance procedures by using the husband of a teacher's aide to perform electrical work at the school.

Nedkelly has provided evidence that Avairs Klavins, husband of Dianne Klavins to perform electrical work at the school despite work being supposed to be done by a department approved contractor. Terry Mahony bypassed departmental guidelines so he could pay Mr Klavins it has been revealed.

It provides further evidence that Carenne Special School will bypass department guidelines to ensure they can feather their friend's own nests.

Update on the Carenne "pig pen"

On October 27, 2009 it was posted to Sydney Indymedia that Peter Harvey had ordered a cover-up of child protection matters at Carenne Special School. As part of this, Mr Harvey told staff to stop using the "pig pen", an area where autistic students were kept when they were distressed.

It has been reported that this area was established in 2007 at the end of the demountable classrooms and used primarily by Ros Luther and Di Klavins. Use of the area was supported by two principals - Terry Mahony and Lyn Duncan with the support of the school executive. The area was moved when the demountable classrooms were moved at the end of 2008. jrosenberg, a poster on this blog claimed that the staff of Mrs Luther's class would not supervise the children while they were in the yard but instead had a mirror on the outside wall of the classroom that they would use to watch them. Staff say that the way the ramps to that classroom are set up that a student could be severely injured in the time it would take staff to reach them.

As can be seen in the photograph top-left taken in April 2009, the area has no shade or other protection from the elements and students have to endure the heat and cold when locked in this yard which could be for hours at a time.


Following Peter Harvey's order, Doug Rowe stored some steel in the area to look as though it hadn't been used and was just used for storage. He also let the grass grow long (up to knee height at one point) and staff were concerned that snakes may be in there. The grass is still kept higher than the rest of the playground for appearance sake.

Staff then began using the Liberty Swing yard (shown under the blue cover to the left) to lock distressed autistic students in. There isn't even a mirror to supervise students in this area as there is no window nearby.