In Australia, a teacher who swore, smoked, discussed masturbation and told ninth-grade boys how to kill with a knife has been judged “fit to teach” after a disciplinary hearing.
Joel Edmund Roache told five students on a school camping trip that the best way to knife someone was to “stab them in the kidneys because then the person inhales and can’t exhale or scream.”
The Victorian Institute of Teaching panel heard Mr Roache spoke to his students about masturbation, smoked in a canoe with a student, and repeatedly said “f—” and “f—ing sh–s”.
He also made disparaging comments about students, saying of one, “She’s so dipsy” and that another had “more cushion for pushin’.”
Roache told the panel he thought the boys were reluctant campers who’d be interested in knives. After female teachers complained, Roache was fired. He’s now cleared to teach again.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds complains it’s hard to find a school with a good knife-fighting curriculum these days. “The Insta-Wife and I have had to teach the insta-daughter at home. Not even Sylvan would help.”
How silly, everyone knows you stab them through the lungs from the backside and THEN they can’t scream
I’m a bit bothered that he didn’t mention ‘turning the gears.’ What an amateur! He’s prepared his students for no more than a sub-par career in killing.
He said that he wouldn’t ever do it again, so… problem solved!
I wouldnt want my boys to be taught by someone like this. Then again some of our female teachers are not that crash hot either, thinking she was teaching my son a lesson, his teacher threw his lunch box in the bin and told him he had to leave it there until the next day. Having said all that, we do need more male teachers, they not all like the 1 mentioned in the story.
Joel is my university ‘mentor’ now. (I’m a student from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) and he is great….but one must ask if he acted this way with year nines is he really ‘fit to teach’ us to teach?
He has a great personality and is a wonderful teacher, dont get me wrong. We are all adults, but a few times I feel he has crossed the boundaries with us too. When this hit the headlines in Melbourne, we were shocked, but not at all surprised.