A deputy principal used dark humour as an outlet but took it too far when saying "if it’s old enough to bleed, it’s old enough to breed" about a female Year 10 student. He also called the student a "s***" and commented on another student’s weight while talking to teachers in the staffroom. Now the man, who has name suppression, has been found by the Teacher’s Disciplinary Tribunal to have committed serious misconduct. Tribunal deputy chair Tim McKenzie said in a recently released decision that the deputy principal made "gratuitous, mean-spirited and demeaning" comments about students. Two incidents a year apart The man was first registered as a teacher in 1998 and had been a teacher and deputy principal at the school for about 12 years. The name and location of the school is suppressed. The first allegation against him was that in March 2022 he and a fellow teacher were speaking in the staffroom during lunch.…