Source : Perth Now news
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“Nobody will want to have sex with you or date you.”
A high school student, known only as Student P, recalled the moment his former teacher, known as AHS, uttered the words to him during class.
AHS told the boy words to the effect of “If you keep swinging on your chair, you will become a paraplegic and you will not be able to get an erection” and nobody would want to have sex with him.
The teacher has been barred from reapplying to teach for five years, with details of his inappropriate sexual discussions with students, “humiliating” racist stunt, and act that left a student “scarred” and bleeding now revealed in a judgment by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
AHS largely denied his conduct when interviewed by investigators, instead trying to pin the blame on students and other staff, the decision states.
One girl known as Student A recalled AHS talking about “sexual fantasies and how men and women aren’t supposed to just be with one person” in part of her statement published in the January 2026 judgment.
He also told the girl “I know you and (her boyfriend) would get it on”.
Student A’s sister gave evidence that AHS talked about sexual fantasies and said “males are built to have more than one partner and (males) like threesomes better than gang bangs where they can have two females”.
AHS denied the conduct but admitted to discussing pornography, that monogamy was a social construct based on religion, and saying words to the effect of “the shape of the penis being designed to pull out sperm from other people” while talking to students more than five years ago.In another instance the following year, he took a Rubik’s cube from a boy known as Student D and said “there are things to play with on your body” before telling him he would break the cube and scatter it around the school.
Many students gave evidence that the teacher discussed masturbation and said he hadn’t touched himself in a while, which the tribunal found corroborated Student D’s evidence.
Student D also added that AHS made a comment about beating people outside of school because he had a black belt in martial arts.
‘Humiliating’ racist stunt
AHS at one stage made students in a year 8 class who were not of European descent stand, telling the class that those who were standing were “taking away the rights of the other (white) students”.
A video filmed by one of the students in the class shows AHS calling an Aboriginal student a hypocrite while referring to the Black Lives Matter movement and talking to the students “in an aggressive, intimidating and humiliating manner”, the judgment states.
AHS’ conduct in the video was described as “racist, confronting, aggressive, humiliating and intimidating”.
The tribunal was “struck by the apparent discomfort of affected students” during the ordeal, with the QCAT decision stating that the Department of Education found the racist conduct “so serious that it warranted a finding of misconduct”.
AHS denied the conduct until he was shown the video, later accepting his behaviour but denying that the acts were racially motivated.
He said the conduct was not intentional and he was “emotionally triggered”, the judgment states.
Student bleeding, ‘scarred’ by act
One student, known as Student Y, was scarred when AHS deliberately stuck their arm with a metal bandage clip until he bled after the student asked AHS how much tattoos hurt.
When shown a photo of Student Y’s scar AHS said Student Y was “a professional victim”, denying the incident happened.
In another instance, AHS poked a student who had “pulled a face” while picking up dodge balls.
When Student Z asked him not to touch him, AHS said “Why, what are you going to do about it if I do?”
Door slammed in pregnant woman’s face
Several teachers came forward to report concerns over AHS’ aggressive language and intimidatory behaviour towards staff, with the man at one point swearing and slamming a door in the face of a pregnant teacher.
The woman, known only as Teacher 4, had not yet told anyone she was pregnant with her first child when AHS asked her how far along she was.
She replied that it was inappropriate for him to ask, and he confronted her aggressively later in the day, slamming the door in her face.
The woman believed she had become a “target” at that point, revealing how she felt unsafe one afternoon when AHS and his friends took photos of her and a colleague walking to their car two minutes before the final school bell in what she thought was a bid to get her in trouble with the Department of Education.
AHS became aggressive and agitated when his behaviour towards staff was raised with him by the school’s deputy principal.
Teacher’s ‘arrogance’
AHS had been teaching for nearly two decades at the time of the offending and chose not to respond to the allegations made against him or file any material in the QCAT proceedings besides submissions.
He largely denied his conduct when interviewed by investigators, “minimised and deflected the inappropriateness of his behaviour”, and tried to pin the blame on other students and staff.
He demonstrated “arrogance, insensitivity” and a lack of care that went against the best interests of the students and breached the special trust placed on him to protect children from harm, the tribunal found.
“The offending conduct occurred over a lengthy period of time of some four years and included sexualised, racially prejudiced, aggressive, physically inappropriate and unprofessional conduct towards students and staff at the school,” the tribunal wrote in their decision.
AHS resigned from his role at a Queensland high school after the Department of Education made allegations against him about inappropriate conduct.
The department in 2023 made disciplinary findings against him that would have led to the termination of AHS’ employment had he not already resigned.
The school AHS worked at in 2024 referred him to QCAT for disciplinary action, and AHS’ teaching registration was cancelled in 2025 because he stopped paying fees.
The tribunal in January banned AHS from reapplying to teach for five years.
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