An under siege all boys school in Melbourne is facing more backlash over a student’s slur given to a teacher with Jewish heritage.
A student at an under siege Christian Brothers school wrote “f*** the Jews” in school work submitted to a teacher with Jewish heritage.
St Bernard’s College in Melbourne was also forced to destroy art smocks emblazoned with swastikas that students had been wearing around campus, with a separate teacher making an official complaint.
Jewish groups are now demanding the school undergo extra training on how to stamp out anti-Semitism.
The new claims about the all boys’ school in the city’s northwest follows a dossier of bad behaviour exposed in a union survey of teachers conducted in September, which was revealed in the Sunday Herald Sun.
Teachers claimed there was a toxic culture with female staff subjected to sexual harassment, that a student saluted Hitler with the words “Sieg Heil” in class and a swastika was etched on a whiteboard.
St Bernard’s College principal Dr Michael Davies said the school acted “immediately” to “condemn unacceptable actions.”
But sources claim that the school had issues with anti-Semitism last year that were not adequately addressed.
“As a Jewish teacher, I was appalled to see widespread swastika graffiti around the school mostly on classroom and exam desks: these were sometimes cleaned and removed,” one teacher said.
“But nothing was addressed in terms of cultural or behavioural issues surrounding this to assist in making it stop.
Read the article by Stephen Drill in the Herald Sun.