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

Teacher at Marist College Ashgrove claims she suffered ‘serious psychiatric injury’ after the schoolyard incident, as school claims matter has been dealt with Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A teacher at one of Brisbane’s top private boys’ schools has claimed she was subject to a “culture of misogyny” after being surrounded by hundreds of Catholic school students and pelted with food in an incident that left her with a “serious psychiatric injury”. A barrister acting for Victoria Sparrow, a teacher at Marist College Ashgrove, told the Brisbane supreme court that the school allowed a culture of misogyny to “develop and exist”. While the school on Wednesday claimed the matter had been dealt with, Sparrow’s barrister, Gerard Forde, submitted in court on Monday that at least three female staff at the school had also made complaints about their treatment. Forde told the court Sparrow has been mentally scarred after students were allegedly “pelting” her with food and drink when a group of up to 300 male students “surrounded her” in the playground. He told the court that the students “then focused on her, started chanting, throwi