Cash for classes mum 'didn't realise it was wrong'.
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Cash for classes mum 'didn't realise it was wrong'. December 08, 2008 |
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/local/5201206/cash-classes-mum-didnt-realise-wrong/
A Sydney mother accused of trying to bribe her son's primary school teacher to help him get into a selective school says she did not know it was wrong to pay teachers.
Speaking through a translator, the boy's mother has told the New South Wales Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) she gave her son's teacher an envelope containing $2,000 in cash, in the hope the teacher would give her son extra attention in class.
She says she did not want her son to get an inflated mark, but just wanted extra help to improve his grades.
The woman told the inquiry although she now knows it was not noble or a moral thing to do, she did not realise it was wrong at the time.
The ICAC inquiry had earlier heard the teacher of the year five student at Westmead Public School say she had received "wads of cash" on two separate occasions from the boy's parents, in the hope it would secure their son a place in a selective high school.
Jodie-Lee Pearce told the Commission the boy's mother met with her after school in August and upon leaving handed her an envelope containing $2,000 in $50 notes.
The envelope also had a letter asking for help with English in the lead-up to the selective school exam.
Ms Pearce says she was shocked when she saw the money and ran into another classroom to show a colleague.
She has also told the inquiry the boy's father also visited her at the school in October with another envelope containing $500 and a letter asking for favourable consideration.
It is alleged the parents were trying to get their son into Baulkham Hills Selective High School in Sydney's north-west.
In his opening address, the counsel-assisting ICAC, Don McKenzie, has told the inquiry parents are eager, sometimes even desperate to get their children into selective schools.
Pathetic.
A Sydney mother accused of trying to bribe her son's primary school teacher to help him get into a selective school says she did not know it was wrong to pay teachers.
Speaking through a translator, the boy's mother has told the New South Wales Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) she gave her son's teacher an envelope containing $2,000 in cash, in the hope the teacher would give her son extra attention in class.
She says she did not want her son to get an inflated mark, but just wanted extra help to improve his grades.
The woman told the inquiry although she now knows it was not noble or a moral thing to do, she did not realise it was wrong at the time.
The ICAC inquiry had earlier heard the teacher of the year five student at Westmead Public School say she had received "wads of cash" on two separate occasions from the boy's parents, in the hope it would secure their son a place in a selective high school.
Jodie-Lee Pearce told the Commission the boy's mother met with her after school in August and upon leaving handed her an envelope containing $2,000 in $50 notes.
The envelope also had a letter asking for help with English in the lead-up to the selective school exam.
Ms Pearce says she was shocked when she saw the money and ran into another classroom to show a colleague.
She has also told the inquiry the boy's father also visited her at the school in October with another envelope containing $500 and a letter asking for favourable consideration.
It is alleged the parents were trying to get their son into Baulkham Hills Selective High School in Sydney's north-west.
In his opening address, the counsel-assisting ICAC, Don McKenzie, has told the inquiry parents are eager, sometimes even desperate to get their children into selective schools.
Pathetic.
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