Gay Principal Settles with Australian Jewish Day School over Dismissal

The fired principal of a major Jewish school in Melbourne reached an out-of-court settlement on the eve of his unfair dismissal case in the Federal Court.

Joseph Gerassi, who is gay, sued Bialik College for millions of dollars in damages to his reputation and for lost income after he was abruptly dumped by the board in 2011. The two parties settled for an undisclosed sum, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.

In a letter, Bialik President Graham Goldsmith said the relationship between the former teacher at the King David School in Johannesburg and the college’s board “had irretrievably broken down” but that his termination was not due to “any dishonesty or misconduct on his part whatsoever.”

Believed to be the first openly gay principal of a Jewish school in Australia, there is no evidence Gerassi was fired because of his sexuality, according to the Herald.

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