Catherine Yeomans, Reader's Comment 1 of 6, Editorial: Lessons to end teacher ex

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Catherine Yeomans, Reader's Comment 1 of 6, Editorial: Lessons to end teacher exodus, The Sunday Times, 19 February 2011: http://www.perthnow.com.au/opinion/editorial-lessons-to-end-teacher-exodus/story-e6frg41u-1226008650514 Historical link preserved from the original page.

West Australia: high school teacher says that workplace bullies dominate the management of the Department of Education, schools and individual departments in schools.

Being a high school teacher for over twenty years meant nothing when I was targeted by a bullying principal, notorious for reducing even male teachers to tears.

The woman reigned supreme for years until she died of cancer but nothing was ever done by DET to bring her to heel let alone any kind of justice.

I wish I could say that she was was rare in the profession but the truth is that bullies like her dominate the management of the Department of Education, schools and individual departments in schools.

That is WHY they are at the top - because bullies will trample over anybody so as to rule over others and make life easy for themselves.

Then they lean hard on the real workers, those with talent and passion for their profession, forcing more and more out of these givers.

She slandered me to a new school where a new set of bullies gleefully took up the fun.

Eventually I was awarded a compensation payout (for PTST from bullying) to resign - but sadly, this option has now been closed to victims.

Nevertheless, the bullying culture remains untouched and unchanged, as colleagues still in the profession tell me.

It's the NORM!

I wouldn't go back into a high school for anything.

Never!