Teachers planning to wear T-shirts attacking Australia's asylum seeker policies should be focusing on their pupils, not their political beliefs, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.
Teachers in Victoria and NSW are planning to wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Close the camps - bring them here" in classrooms on Monday, according to the Teachers for Refugees Facebook page.
"There is a lot of work to be done in our schools and it doesn't include political campaigning," Mr Turnbull told 3AW on Thursday.
A Victorian education department spokesman said in a statement that government school teachers could support causes in their own time but shouldn't use their professional position to make political statements.
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