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 |  Subject: OZschwitz: YaY! 10-year-old students start a petition to get nude teacher reinstated  Tue May 13, 2008 4:02 am | |
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The primary school teacher sacked for posing nude with her husband in a magazine has sparked a classroom protest it seems.
One of her 10-year-old students at Narraweena Public School on Sydney's northern beaches appears to have started a petition to get Miss reinstated.
But one parent, who did not wish to be named, said the buzz at the school was that the principal had taken the book with the petition and ripped out the pages - a claim the principal was not prepared to comment on today.
This act of youthful activism follows the sacking last week of 24-year-old Lynne Tziolas after she and her husband appeared in a Cleo magazine article titled "Buck naked couples talk about their sex lives".
The article ran interviews with 10 couples about "what they get up to between the sheets" and asked Ms Tziolas and her husband, Antonios, how many times they have sex a week, their favourite body part and the most risque sexual thing they've done.
"Leaving the blinds up and the lights on, which is all the time," Antonios said in response to the last question.
Complaints
Ms Tziolas's sacking prompted some parents to complain.
One parent, Eileen Sawaid, organised a petition to demand Ms Tziolas's reinstatement, and she said she has received about 300 signatures.
"I fully support Lynne and will fight damn hard to help her because what happened is wrong," she said this morning.
Instead of protecting the children from the contents of the magazine, the sacking of Ms Tziolas had in fact brought it to their attention, she said.
"The way the children found about about Ms Tziolas's [magazine shoot] was after she was sacked, it had been out for a while before then and none of them had even heard about it," she said.
Ms Sawaid also said she had misgivings about how the children at the school had become part of the issue, and criticised a story in the Manly Daily today which discussed the student petition to reinstate Ms Tziolas.
Not good for children to be involved
"Her dismissal affects the children in many ways but the [issue] is an adult one and I don't think it's good for the children to be involved," she said.
Ms Tziolas's husband Antonios also said he regretted the involvement of the children.
"We're a little bit upset that the kids are being damaged collaterally by all this ... it would upset Lynne and I if they get punished for what they've done," he said.
The principal of the school, Julie Organ, referred questions about the alleged confiscation of the classroom petition to the Department of Education.
A spokesman for the department said: "As the situation is complex and not one easily explained to junior primary school age children, it is inappropriate for them to be asked to sign a petition without the advice and guidance of parents.
Concerned parent
"A parent raised her concern with the school about a petition being created during class time.
"The petition, which had only a small number of signatures, was provided to the principal and the exercise book in which it had been written was returned to the parent of the student involved."
Mr Tziolas also said the couple were due to meet a lawyer provided by the Teacher's Federation this afternoon to begin legal action to have Ms Tziolas reinstated, he said.
"Lynne and I have just been overwhelmed by the response - people we've never met have been sending us letters, people have been stopping us in the streets to give us their support," he said.
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| | Subject: Re: OZschwitz: YaY! 10-year-old students start a petition to get nude teacher reinstated Tue May 13, 2008 4:07 am | |
| | Dammit, 10 year olds have more common sense than the conservative statist maggots, motherfuckers! |
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| | Subject: 'Nude' teacher to sue over sacking Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:03 am | |
| 'Nude' teacher to sue over sacking
A Sydney teacher sacked for posing nude in Cleo magazine has said she will probably never return to teaching after a battle to get her job back failed, and plans to sue the State Government for damages for the affect the fight has had on her mental health.
Lynne Tziolas, 24, said she had suffered debilitating anxiety throughout her ordeal with the NSW Education Department, which has left her dependant on prescription medication. The former Narraweena Public School teacher said she feared she was heading for a total mental breakdown before she decided to take action.
"I'd had enough," she said today. "My health at the moment is quite unstable and I'm finding that I'm needing to seek professional help."
Since she was sacked from her job in May for appearing in the article "Buck naked, where couples talk about their sex lives", Ms Tziolas says she has had to take prescription medication for anxiety and has suffered depressive episodes, and feels she would be unable to work full time even if she was offered a satisfactory job.
"I don't think I'll ever teach again," she said.
Antonios Tziolas, who is also a teacher, said the department's decision to sack his wife was a double standard, as it had never pursued any action against him for the nude image.
"I haven't been sanctioned at all," he said. "Surely they should apply the same force to both of us."
Mr Tziolas said he had not received any offers for work from Narraweena Public School since the incident, despite being on its list of casuals.
The couple are now drafting statements with their solicitors, who have taken on their case pro bono.
A spokesman from the Education Department refused to comment on the case, saying it was a matter for the courts.
"We're not about to pre-empt anything that is going to go before the courts," he said.
Ms Tziolas said that, even if she was not successful, she hoped to highlight the effects of the Education Department's actions.
"I'm hopeful that at least the public will know exactly what it's like to go through something like this and to also know how difficult it can be to deal with a government department," she said.
She confirmed that men's magazine Zoo Weekly had offered her $5000 for a bikini shoot when news of her appearance in Cleo first made headlines in May, but said she was not interested
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