The NSW Department of Education withdraws a teaching resource, seven years after the presenter of the video was convicted of child porn offences.
"To be a teacher in a school or to go into a school to talk, you've got to have a Working With Children Check, you can't be on the registered sex offenders list … Andy Muirhead went to jail for downloading pornographic images, he was convicted of the offence," he said.
"But it's okay for Andy Muirhead to go into the homes of hundreds of children doing distance ed, developing familiarity with these children? "Young children could bump into Andy Muirhead in the street one day, they've already got a rapport, 'There's that nice man who was presenting our history program'."It beggars belief.
"It seemed to me that they were more concerned with their own embarrassment and protecting their image, rather than warning the parents properly and telling them why they shouldn't watch this DVD," he said.A spokesperson for the department said the DVD was being used for one activity within the Year 10 History course about popular culture in the 1950s.
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