With the actual number of cases against Carenne Special School staff and associated persons unknown it is hard to provide a complete list. There are both criminal and civil cases before the courts about this school.
David Withyman case
The case of a former Carenne Special School student who alleges he had a sexual relationship with a teacher will continue in the District Court in Sydney on Monday. It will be heard in room 13C of John Madisson Tower before Judge Elkaim. The case has been heard for four to five weeks now.
Criminal charges against Carenne executive staff
The criminal charges against Carenne principal Neil Moon and two of his assistant principals Lee Churches and Terry Neal were again before the court on Monday. According to court staff Nathan Carter has been replaced by the Director of Public Prosecutions as the prosecutor. The case returns to court on 27 July 2010.
Criminal charges against Carenne Support Director
The criminal charges against Carenne Support director Geoff Salmon will be heard on 7 September 2010 after he plead not guilty.
If you know of any other cases before the courts surrounding Carenne Special School staff or associates please email me so we can report on them.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Carenne keeping the department in the dark on serious incidents
Carenne whistleblower nedkelly has claimed that Carenne Special School staff have been failing to report serious incidents at the school to the department.
According to departmental guidelines, the principal is required to notify the School Safety and Security Unit when a major incident occurs. Major incidents required to be reported are the assault of students or staff, the presence of Police due to an incident and unfavourable media or community attention on the school.
Nedkelly said that she has been told that the school doesn't report incidents as required by the department because it "makes the school look bad". Nedkelly said that when the Police are called on students the department is usually not aware of it. Nedkelly claims to have questioned Neil Moon about this and was told that it was none of her business.
Nedkelly also claims that when a student overdosed on a teacher's pain medication last year and needed to be taken to the hospital that staff were directed by Lyn Duncan and Lee Churches to keep quiet about the incident. The local school education director only became aware of the incident after another whistleblower contacted him.
Carenne Special School continues to defy department policy and cover-up the truth about what is happening at this school of horrors.
According to departmental guidelines, the principal is required to notify the School Safety and Security Unit when a major incident occurs. Major incidents required to be reported are the assault of students or staff, the presence of Police due to an incident and unfavourable media or community attention on the school.
Nedkelly said that she has been told that the school doesn't report incidents as required by the department because it "makes the school look bad". Nedkelly said that when the Police are called on students the department is usually not aware of it. Nedkelly claims to have questioned Neil Moon about this and was told that it was none of her business.
Nedkelly also claims that when a student overdosed on a teacher's pain medication last year and needed to be taken to the hospital that staff were directed by Lyn Duncan and Lee Churches to keep quiet about the incident. The local school education director only became aware of the incident after another whistleblower contacted him.
Carenne Special School continues to defy department policy and cover-up the truth about what is happening at this school of horrors.
Only half of all teachers found to be corrupt sacked
Our main focus on this blog is on Carenne Special School and the issues there but a report by the Daily Telegraph indicates that there are problems with corruption among teachers in NSW.
The Telegraph claimed that of the 73 teachers referred to the ICAC, 22 were found guilty and one half of those were sacked. The other 11 were cautioned or demoted.
Three teachers were reported for accessing or distributing pornography with one found guilty and ordered to take counseling as a result. Two sexual misconduct allegations were reported but could not be proven.
The most prevelant concern in the teaching profession is theft and making fraudulent claims, something we have reported as occurring at Carenne. 21 staff were investigated and 9 were found guilty. Of those 9 there were 2 sackings, one forced resignation, one casual withdrawal and 2 cautions.
In the Telegraph, a departmental spokesman was quoted as claiming that the education department takes misconduct seriously and report matters where appropriate, they also said that matters referred to the ombudsman were relatively small compared to how many people the department employs.
The article doesn't talk about how many investigations were carried out by the department itself and how many of those resulted in referrals to other agencies.
The Telegraph claimed that of the 73 teachers referred to the ICAC, 22 were found guilty and one half of those were sacked. The other 11 were cautioned or demoted.
Three teachers were reported for accessing or distributing pornography with one found guilty and ordered to take counseling as a result. Two sexual misconduct allegations were reported but could not be proven.
The most prevelant concern in the teaching profession is theft and making fraudulent claims, something we have reported as occurring at Carenne. 21 staff were investigated and 9 were found guilty. Of those 9 there were 2 sackings, one forced resignation, one casual withdrawal and 2 cautions.
In the Telegraph, a departmental spokesman was quoted as claiming that the education department takes misconduct seriously and report matters where appropriate, they also said that matters referred to the ombudsman were relatively small compared to how many people the department employs.
The article doesn't talk about how many investigations were carried out by the department itself and how many of those resulted in referrals to other agencies.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Why is DET representing a contractor with $95,000 in the bank?
With the NSW Department of Education and Training funding the legal defence of its contractor and corrupt Carenne Special School charity, Carenne Support you could be forgiven for thinking that perhaps the company is in a weak financial position. The truth is at the end of the 2009 financial year, it had $95,000 in the bank and was worth $180,000.
This cash in the bank was after it spent $48,050 on a new bus.
Why then is the department representing it in court? It's time that Carenne Support is let to stand on its own two feet instead of bludging off the public teat.
DET heavyweights visit Carenne to discuss Carenne Gate
Yesterday afternoon, relieving School Education Director Kate White, human resources manager Peter Seligman and legal officer Patrick Quinn met with Carenne Special School staff to discuss this blog.
Prior to their arrival, Carenne Principal Neil Moon told staff to make sure they complained about the blog and the effect it is having on staff. Mr Moon also told staff that they needed to tell the high level departmental staff that they feel as though the department is ignoring staff concerns and leaving Carenne to fend for itself.
One attendee at the meeting told Carenne Gate that Mr Quinn said the legal department was close to a "breakthrough" on closing the blog down while Mr Seligman claimed that he knew no Carenne staff were on the blog or feeding authors information and that it had all came from external sources. Of course, readers of this blog would know this to be completely delusional. As I wrote a few weeks ago, Mr Moon continues to claim that his staff aren't leaking information despite Carenne staff supplying me with copies of meeting minutes and staff bulletins.
If the blog is full of lies and misinformation like Ms White, Mr Seligman and Mr Quinn claim why is it that as soon as something is posted on this blog action is taken to fix it? Why is it that Neil Moon feels the need to counter it with his own lies in the local news?
The department has been made aware of Michael Auld's leaks and use of confidential information and has decided to do nothing and its obvious to any intelligent person that "carennetruth" and her aliases is a member of the Carenne Special School executive. It doesn't take much to figure out (even without her public admissions) that "carennetruth" is Lee Churches. The department has been provided with logs indicating the IP address of "carennetruth" and her associated aliases and has done nothing.
The plain and simple fact is that if there were no problems at Carenne there would be no need to discuss it in public. Instead, because of the cover-ups, lies, abuse and corruption there is a need to hold the department and individuals responsible accountable for their actions.
Prior to their arrival, Carenne Principal Neil Moon told staff to make sure they complained about the blog and the effect it is having on staff. Mr Moon also told staff that they needed to tell the high level departmental staff that they feel as though the department is ignoring staff concerns and leaving Carenne to fend for itself.
One attendee at the meeting told Carenne Gate that Mr Quinn said the legal department was close to a "breakthrough" on closing the blog down while Mr Seligman claimed that he knew no Carenne staff were on the blog or feeding authors information and that it had all came from external sources. Of course, readers of this blog would know this to be completely delusional. As I wrote a few weeks ago, Mr Moon continues to claim that his staff aren't leaking information despite Carenne staff supplying me with copies of meeting minutes and staff bulletins.
If the blog is full of lies and misinformation like Ms White, Mr Seligman and Mr Quinn claim why is it that as soon as something is posted on this blog action is taken to fix it? Why is it that Neil Moon feels the need to counter it with his own lies in the local news?
The department has been made aware of Michael Auld's leaks and use of confidential information and has decided to do nothing and its obvious to any intelligent person that "carennetruth" and her aliases is a member of the Carenne Special School executive. It doesn't take much to figure out (even without her public admissions) that "carennetruth" is Lee Churches. The department has been provided with logs indicating the IP address of "carennetruth" and her associated aliases and has done nothing.
The plain and simple fact is that if there were no problems at Carenne there would be no need to discuss it in public. Instead, because of the cover-ups, lies, abuse and corruption there is a need to hold the department and individuals responsible accountable for their actions.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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.
Why the Bathurst community can say Neil Moon is a liar
Once again Carenne Special School turns to the Western Advocate, Bathurst's local newspaper to try and counter the effect of this blog.
On Tuesday, an article, written presumably by Neil Moon appeared in the "Update from the Principal" section on page 12 appeared in the newspaper. The article goes on to discuss how much the school has benefited from the Building the Education Revolution funding (or Gillard School Building debacle) which has paid for a new library, connector classroom, high support needs student classroom, toilet renovations and a roof over the centre quadrangle of the school. Mention is also made of the new senior classrooms which opened last year, full of problems which the saviours blamed on Michael Auld having the rooms allocated differently to how they would be used in an attempt to get more from the education department.
Mr Moon fails to mention that only the cover over the quadrangle is part of the BER funding and that the other upgrades have been planned since Terry Mahony was principal and will be funded by the state government, as were the four senior classrooms. Once again, Carenne Special School is attempting to prop up the Labor Party and counter the effect on the blog.
After the new building opened last year, Terry Neal, principal at the time was on the local news saying how the school needed to replace the demountable buildings the school had. Almost immediately, the Carenne Saviours came out swinging saying that the school now has nowhere to build new facilities because Michael Auld had arranged for the land at the rear of the school to be leased to Riding for the Disabled, an organisation he is on the committee of. While Carenne will be receiving a new library and high support needs classroom, these are being built in the school's connected classroom and home economics room. It is a refit not a completely new building program. The high support needs classroom is currently a demountable building which leaks and is full of mould. This refit is being funded by the state government, not the BER program. Neil Moon obviously has no idea what is going on or he is just plain out lying.
The article then goes on to praise the Riding for the Disabled program, claiming that it is "traveling along wonderfully", despite claims that certain students are excluded and it being postponed while Melinda Gavin took a holiday. Mr Moon then says about how the school has a therapy farm behind it, despite this being operated by RDA and is presently on hold as the school had been wrongfully funding it. At the staff meeting on 31 May 2010, staff were told that funding was being investigated and that there could be a fee for each student who attends the farm. Once again, Neil Moon is trying to mislead the Bathurst community.
The article ends by mentioning that the school looks forward to working with Denison College on the Trade Training Centre next year. The centre was originally supposed to have been completed much earlier, but the Carenne TTC committee, comprising of Lyn Duncan and Michael Auld managed to have part of the funding allocated to RDA. It is unknown how much RDA received out of the $3.7 million when it was entitled to nothing. This appeared to be just another desperate attempt by Neil Moon to counter what is already on the blog for all to see.
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