“I had dozens of cards and letters from parents just being amazingly supportive and saying that’s why they sent their ...
Meet the Catholic principal standing up for Safe Schools
The first email took him by surprise. Then the letters and the cards started to roll in, lining his office. It was the first term of 2016 and Paul Tobias of St Joseph’s College Geelong had just taken a rather radical stance for a Catholic principal – he had defended the Safe Schools program. The last thing he expected was a thank you from the community.
St Joseph’s College in Victoria, headed by principal Paul Tobias, is the only mainstream Catholic school in Australia supporting Safe Schools.
This story appeared in the July 2016 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.