St Kevin’s College teachers face disciplinary action amid vindictive claims made by students

Female teachers at St Kevin’s College claim they have been bullied by male students. Now, they are risking their jobs by speaking up about their treatment at the school.

Female teachers at St Kevin’s College are facing disciplinary action following vindictive claims made about them by male students.

Female teachers at St Kevin’s College are facing disciplinary action following vindictive claims made about them by male students.

The Herald Sun has been contacted by a number of college staff members who are risking their jobs by speaking out about their treatment at the school.

At least one staff member is fighting for her job after being bullied by students who are understood to be retaliating against being disciplined.

It is understood that another female is in a similar situation and facing professional repercussions for punishing boys for expressing misogynist attitudes and behaviour.

On Tuesday a female staff member took a boy out of class to speak about his behaviour. While she was gone, the rest of the class filled up water balloons and threw them around the classroom.

The teacher is now facing questions about why she left the student unattended, the Herald Sun has been told.

At least one staff member at the school is facing disciplinary action following vindictive claims made about them by male students.

One staff member said staff “have been told to stop talking about specific incidents of boy’s behaving badly”.

“Staff are being monitored in the staffroom at recess and lunch. They are trying to frighten people into submission,” they said.

Principal Deborah Barker is being accused by some staff of sidelining those who continue to push for cultural change in the elite Toorak boys’ school. These include longstanding staff who have had leadership roles taken away from them.

It comes after teachers last month said the school culture had reached “a new low” after boys were caught in a lewd TikTok challenge resulting in a female teacher receiving counselling.

Multiple sources, at the time, told Herald Sun the acts involved sexualised behaviour, causing widespread concern throughout the teaching body.

One source said the acts, which involved boys in a year 11 class, were part of an ongoing wider challenge linked to a dare wheel used by senior footballers at the school.

It comes as St Kevin’s continues to face the fallout from the actions of former school leaders, with investigations still ongoing over the handling of reportable conduct allegations by past senior staff.

Recent research from Monash University based on interviews with 30 women teachers, found the resurgence of male supremacy and the advancement of toxic masculinity in Australian schools.