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A FEMALE teacher caught kissing a student also sent him more than 200 text messages, a disciplinary panel was told yesterday. The Victorian Institute of Teaching heard then St Francis Xavier College physical education teacher Belinda Campbell also had a photo of him in her purse, and drank vodka at a social gathering where the student was seen lying in her lap last year. Ms Campbell watched the student, who was 18 at the time, play tennis, drove him home from school and invited him to an MCG blockbuster with her now estranged husband and other students, the panel heard. The panel will decide whether Ms Campbell should be permitted to continue teaching. Stuart Campbell told the hearing he suspected his wife was having an inappropriate relationship with a student, which was confirmed when he found her phone bill. "I counted the number of messages sent to him a few times," Mr Campbell said. He then looked at her phone and read two text messages from the former student. One said "I love you, I love you, I love you," and the other said "I should be lying beside you eating ice cream", the panel heard. Mr Campbell said his wife even changed her nominated phone number - a number the person can call for free - from her husband to the student's mobile. The final straw came when he saw the student in his wife's car, he said. Ms Campbell denied ever acting inappropriately with the student, and told the hearing rumours snowballed when the student broke up with his girlfriend and he turned to her for counselling. The girlfriend had told the hearing on a previous occasion she had found emails from the teacher, which said: "I miss you", and, "I miss your touch," when she logged on to the student's account. "He came to me because he felt comfortable talking to me," Ms Campbell, who taught the student for two years, said. She resigned from the Beaconsfield school in October last year, days after three students told the principal they had seen the pair kissing at a nearby botanic gardens. "She (the principal) wasn't interested in my version of events," Ms Campbell said. "I had done so much for the school . . . and I felt that for me there was a lack of trust, which made the position untenable." Ms Campbell now works as a tutor but hopes to return to the profession she loves. The former student is now overseas and vehemently denied ever kissing the teacher. He said via a telephone hook-up yesterday they had a normal student-teacher relationship. "It is just ridiculous and really gets me angry," he said. "I deny ever being at the gardens." The hearing continues. Herald Sun (18-11-2005) Jane Metlikovec |
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