Who would be a teacher in NSW?

This morning a teenager was killed in a shark attack at Ballina (northern New South Wales). By early afternoon, the media had found a whipping boy - NSW teachers.

The teachers held a stop-work meeting this morning, and so, according to the ABC Radio News, the boy went for an early morning surf. It seems that the local Police have directly linked the kids death to the Teachers' stop-work meeting.

"Detective Inspector Clark says the pair went to the beach to ride their bodyboards because the school day was starting late so teachers could hold a vote on strike action."

See: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/08/2210932.htm

I wonder if Detective Inspector Clark has checked the kid's attendance record at school for the previous few months, to see if he ever missed morning classes before. If I was a teacher, I would be furious at this simplistic "blame the teachers" approach to the death of a teenager.

The kid was killed by a shark, not a Teacher.