One of the most controversial clients in the country dived into the Education Department after she roared its teachers for the return of shots of fireball Whiskey on a Staffeest on school grounds.
Tracey Brose announced parents and students of Tamorine Mountain State High last week that she would not return to the school after a longer period of personal leave.
The decision comes in the midst of continuous revelations about Mrs Brose's interactions with staff and the broader school community during her controversial 22-year-old stewardship.
Although Mrs. Brose led the school to large academic heights during her reign, she was central in a series of long scandals in the last decade.
For the first time, she won national headlines in 2016 after she had sued a group of the parents of her students due to defamation After a 'malignant, annoying, terrible woman' being labeled on social media.
The award -winning educator had initially sought $ 1.2 million compensation, but eventually only received $ 6,000 from parents Donna and Miguel Baluskas – and later claimed that her action had never been financially motivated.
“I don't need any money, I don't need any damage, I need her (the judge) to say that this is not good and has to stop,” she said after the 2020 decision.
Despite finding the benefit of Mrs. Brose, the judge criticized who supervised.
Tracey Brose (photo) claimed that she was damaged after she was suspended in 2016 at the Tamborine Mountain State High School on the Gold Coast van Queensland in Queensland
Mrs. Brose spent more than $ 600,000 fighting against the long defamation, which drove the Balukas in bankruptcy and cost them their house.
The extraordinary row of four years began when eight parents of Tamborine Mountain, the only state school in the small Gold Coast Hinterland community of only 7000, wrote defamatory comments about a change.org petition with regard to Mrs. Brose.
At the height of the legal battle, Mr. Balukas, whose son of the school was driven out for making a comment on a school bus, the house of the director, reportedly forced Mrs. Brose's husband to pull a knife on him in defense.
While Mrs. Brose finally returned to work at the school, she was forced to take leave again at the beginning of last year after her husband – a colleague teacher – suffered a serious injury before she announced her resignation this month.
Her leave coincided with a separate and non -related incident in which she apologized for destroying the teachers of her school for drinking at school buildings during a Christmas party during the day after the academic year in 2023.
According to e-mails obtained by the courier newspaper of Brisbane, she apologized to her staff for her 'unprofessional, irrational and unacceptable' response, which admitted that she had 'ruined [the] Christmas lunch and parties'.
Mrs. Brose told her teachers in the e -mail that she had reacted angry because she had been worried that they could experience disciplinary measures about the party – and she could not tolerate the thought that her 'beloved staff' was in trouble for breaking school rules.
She went to her own suspension almost ten years ago, and although the reasons behind it were never made public, she acknowledged that the experience was almost enough to stop her with the profession.
Donna and Miguel Baluskas (photo) spent four years fighting against Mrs. Brose in court before they lost the defamation and their house in the midst of a mountain of legal costs
“I was activated by the thought of one of my employees who are confronted with suspension,” she explained in her e -mail who produced the Christmas party.
'I hardly survived, most people never return to teaching.
“The (her reaction) was an emotional reactive anxiety situation. Not for me – I will take bullets – but for my beloved staff. You are my family, the people I care about and work together every day.
'I have the opportunity to see space and time to see how one small thing could have far into the future (that) nobody can foresee and that is where my brain went and there was no return and no rational reactions there once.
'It was pure fear, I had to repair and protect you and was overwhelmed by anger and emotion. I was angry with me, but in many cases it was unfortunately directed with the staff. '
Mrs. Brose blamed her own 'bad leadership and management' for the controversial response and added that she understood that last Christmas celebrations 'possibly the private and discreet consumption of alcohol paid'.
However, she said that she did not know that drinking fireball shots had become a 'tradition' and had been worried that they were consumed 'early in the day' and offered in the school's administration block.
Mrs. Brose reportedly left her job at the beginning of 2024 after she apologized for a furious eruption about a Christmas party at Tamborine Mountain State High School (photo)
“(I feel) humiliated, ashamed and a huge and overwhelming feeling of loss of respect, failure as a leader and very little dignity, and sorrow for the pain I caused the people I was scared and panicked that I had to protect,” she wrote in the e-mail obtained by the courier.
She added that she accepted 'full responsibility' for the time that failed and referred the incident to the education department of the State, together with a suggestion that she has to deal with disciplinary measures about the tirade.
Documents obtained by the Brisbane newspaper suggested That Mrs. Brose was also investigated after a formal complaint had been received about a non -specific incident.
It is not known whether the issue related to the Christmas party or another problem.
Mrs. Brose could not be contacted for comment.
The Queensland Department of Education told Daily Mail Australia that it could not discuss things.
“The department has all directors, teachers and school staff according to the highest possible standards,” said a spokesperson.
“We cannot provide any further information for confidentiality reasons.”
