Falsified 'records' of meetings can be secretly placed on a Queensland teacher's official file.
Records of meetings may be falsified to the disadvantage of teachers.
For example, a teacher's response to allegations may be 'edited out' of the official records.
Or the allegations may be changed.
And the names of the people making the allegations may be changed.
The teacher may not realise that the allegations have been changed for several years, till they receive copies of the "records' of the meeeting under freedom of Information.
A lot of the teacher's time and effort may have been wasted writing responses to allegations that have been changed.
The teacher may even find that they have been used as a puppet to do themselves harm. Falsified official records may secretly have been made of their own 'confessions', 'demands' or 'poor professinal conduct'.
Union organisers may also have been abused as puppets to hear / not hear / not be able to remember what happened at the meeting and to do the teacher harm.
QTU organisers seem to feel helpless to prevent this abuse because of the QTU policy that 'no help will be given to any member who is in conflict with another member'.
This QTU policy exposes Queensland teachers to workplace abuse.
A teacher may be given verbal assurances at a meeting which are the direct opposite of what is in the official records.
Or the teacher may find that events that take place immediately after a meeting make nonsense of the assurances that they were given at the meeting.
For example, a bully principal may be promoted, celebrated in Parliament House or given a special award a few days after such a meeting.
- All Queensland Department of Education meetings to discuss complaints should be tape-recorded and transcribed.
- A copy should be given to each meeting participant.
- This simple strategy would raise the standard of professional conduct and eliminate many workplace problems.
- It would also reduce the need for teachers to make FOI applications for falsified "meeting notes".
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