The fight of a few desperate old boys to stop their alma mater, Newington College, going co-ed was dealt another blow on Wednesday, this time in the NSW Supreme Court.
An anonymous current pupil, fronting for the anti-co-ed contingent, had claimed the school’s 1873 trust deed made the council’s decision to admit girls not just inappropriate, but illegal. Its reference to students as “youth” clearly meant boys, his lawyers said. They even pulled out a specific dictionary referencing a John Milton poem to prove their case. The wonders of a liberal education.
