June 15, 2008 - In Australia, every state school student - all 480,000 - will be
posted online by the Government. Photographs, personal details, career aspirations, off-campus activities and student performance records are being collected from all 1251 state schools.
Education Minister Rod Welford said parents could be denied access to public education if they refused to consent to their child being profiled on the system.He dismissed concerns from parents about pedophiles hacking into the database.Participation in the online database is non-negotiable, he said.
And there is this:
At least four Queensland teachers have been arrested in the past fortnight in connection with an international child porn network. One is accused of super-imposing photos of himself and his students on online images of children being sexually abused.TT - Something like that should make it a lot harder for the newly-elected Liberal government in Australia to dismiss, but theEducation Minister is undeterred. See TT entry on the arrests (one teacher committed suicide, another attempted suicide.)
See our Link to Teachers and Child Pornography for teachers in the U.S. we have found who have been sentenced or are awaiting sentencing for child pornography.
