Mentone Grammar sacks 20 staff as virus hits finances

Workers at Mentone Grammar, which charges more than $30,000 a year in school fees at senior level, were told on Friday that their roles had been scrapped for business reasons.The school principal sent staff a parody version of the Lord’s Prayer and other Biblical passages, rewritten to reflect the difficulties of teaching in the time of COVID-19, just hours after notifying staff they would lose their jobs.

“Although a provider of education, we are also a business and like every business in this climate, we need to look at ways at which costs and overheads can be reduced," the school’s director of business, Nicole Bradshaw, said in an email to affected staff. The job cuts were “an unfortunate consequence of COVID-19 and the financial pressure the pandemic will place the school under”, Ms Bradshaw said.believes at least 22 Mentone Grammar staff were told their jobs would be made redundant on Friday.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

So they are not still teaching virtually? Or did they lay off non-teaching staff?

Sacks. Doesn’t furlough. Doesn’t leverage leave arrangements. If the reporting is true then here is old school us and them IR. Republicans kill their own.

Every teacher not at school should be made redundant

Probably just used it as an excuse to offset some dead weight

Maybe public schools should start doing the same thing,

But aren’t parents still paying fees?

Who’s creating and teaching the remote learning lessons of those 20 teachers? I’d be asking a lot of questions if I was paying 30K to send my kid there

The virus hasn't hit anything, hysterical over reactions have.

Don’t they charge like $30,000 per student?

Private school values hey!! Furthermore - Happy to take public dollars year after year yet keep the public out!!!

Another reason why governments shouldn't fund private schools... They are businesses.

Makes me wonder where all of the fees are going-they definitely aren’t going in the pockets of the teachers! 1 reason why they shouldn’t be propped up by or subsidized by the government! What happens when school goes back? If those teachers are gone whose going to teach the kids?

Mentone Grammar spent $40 million on capital expenditure between 2015-2017. I think they can afford to not fire teachers.

Sums up all that is wrong with private schools.

Poor management?

They should speak to Geelong College about their experience following the Pyramid Building Society collapse in G-town.

State should take over and turn it into a public school

If I were a parent of the school, I would be questioning if I got my money’s worth in the quality of teachers before Covid came to town? Surely a private school’s “calibre” of teachers would not allow for 20 of them to be expendable after only a few weeks! Also, who’s the $$$

Perth schools stood down heaps of staff at the end of last term. 48 at one school alone. Those schools are eligible for JobKeeper so we are subsidising each staff member's salary by $3K monthly, even though the running costs of schools has dramatically decreased without boarders

Makes you wonder where all the money goes.

What BS, using Covid-19 as an excuse to get rid of people.

Seriously? $15,000 per year for a kindergarten place and $30,000 for each year of high school. I'm pretty sure they can find the cash reserves to pay their damn teachers!

Wait until next Schools Budget. Going to be a little bit tense.

Quick the government had better give them millions or these rich people may not be able to buy that second hermes scarf this week. Perhaps they could take some money from public schools or bush fire victims.

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