{"id":6603,"date":"2023-07-20T05:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2023-07-20T05:34:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:34:47","slug":"teacher-who-stole-nearly-20000-in-gross-breach-of-trust-escapes-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6603","title":{"rendered":"Teacher who stole nearly $20,000 in \u2018gross breach of trust\u2019 escapes cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A registered teacher who stole nearly $20,000 from her employer through false invoices has escaped cancellation and is now working at a polytechnic, managing a budget of close to half a million dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While now barred from undertaking any teaching role that involves the handling of money, a tribunal allowed the teacher to continue her role with the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Former Cabinet minister Sam Lotu-liga, who has been the Auckland woman\u2019s boss for two years, vouched for her in an affidavit, saying she has since proven herself trustworthy and is not a risk to the profession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Taemanuolo Faae-Semeatu, also known as Aiono Manu Fa\u2019aea and listed on MIT\u2019s website as a senior Pasifika manager, was censured by the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal in a decision released this week.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A registered teacher who stole nearly $20,000 from her employer through false invoices has escaped cancellation and is now working at a polytechnic, managing a budget of close to half a million dollars. While now barred from undertaking any teaching role that involves the handling of money, a tribunal allowed the teacher to continue her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}