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‘Culture of misogyny’: teacher surrounded by hundreds of students and pelted with food at elite Brisbane boys’ school, court told

Victoria Sparrow, a teacher at Brisbane's elite Marist College Ashgrove, is pursuing a workers' compensation claim against the school, alleging she suffered serious psychiatric injury after being surrounded by hundreds of male students who pelted her with food. Her barrister told the Brisbane Supreme Court that the school allowed a culture of misogyny to develop, noting multiple female staff have made similar mistreatment complaints; the case is adjourned pending resolution of a document disclosure dispute, with a return to court scheduled for Friday.