‘Good riddance hoes’: Private girls’ school muck-up day gets cancelled for clean-up
Muck-up madness continues in Victoria, with one event at a leading private girls’ school lasting just 30 minutes. It comes as another school petitions for the right to celebrate.
Some year 12 cohorts have famously taken muck-up days too far by hoisting cows onto school roofs, setting ovals on fire or turning swimming pools into giant bubble baths.
But schools across Victoria have cracked down, rebranding the tradition as more civilised ‘celebration days’, ordering immediate clean-ups or outright banning the event.
At one private girls’ school, the class of 2025’s antics didn’t even last an hour before the clean-up began.
Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar students hung a banner reading “Good Riddance Hoes,” littered hallways with cups and chair barricades, draped bathrooms in streamers, and removed locker locks.
A clip on TikTok states that the day started at 7.50am but was cancelled by 8.20am.
“We’re normally claims the whole day but bc of how unhappy the teachers were, we only got 30 min before getting called into a group lecture,” one student posted.
She said the event ended “cuz we ‘went too far’, ‘crossed the boundaries’ but in reality we didn’t do sh*t. Last yrs yr level made teachers so strict on us this year”.
However, a spokeswoman for the school noted that “any mess the students made, they responsibly cleaned up before the start of the school day”.
“The final day ended with a student-led assembly which celebrated their contribution to the life of the school,” she said. “Our focus remains on fostering positive experiences as we approach end-of-year events for the Class of 2025.”
Over at Killester College, a Catholic girls’ school in Springvale, exuberant students covered classrooms and hallways in streamers, toilet paper and plastic wrap.
A For Sale sign was planted at the front gate, wanted posters slapped on lockers, and flour, confetti, and books littered the floors.
Stairways were lined with cups of water, with the walls covered in signs reading: “Drop out while you can”.
Other students making a massive mess were at Kambrya College, where students posted clips of polystyrene balls strewn across the carpet, poured into desk drawers and furniture being moved.
Lockers were also opened, streamers put throughout classrooms and papers thrown around on the floor.
At Craigieburn Secondary College, students threw a school wide party decking the campus out with balloons, and pelting each other with flour and shaving cream.
With official celebrations off the cards at many schools, unhappy students took their protests online, posting tongue-in-cheek TikToks of themselves flipping a single chair upside down, scribbling on whiteboards, or dramatically flicking power switches.
In the middle of the crackdown, students at Aquinas College Ringwood launched a petition against a total ban on the day.
“Many schools have successfully kept this tradition alive by putting in place clear guidelines, supervision, and themed activities that ensure both safety and enjoyment,” the petition said.
“We are more than willing to work within such boundaries. What we cannot accept is being excluded from a tradition that every other cohort before us has been allowed to enjoy.”
A Department of Education spokesperson said: “reaching the final day of school is a great milestone for students”.
“The students at both schools followed the guidelines of what they were allowed to do in celebrating their final day and, where necessary, assisted in the clean-up,” he said.
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Originally published as ‘Good riddance hoes’: Private girls’ school muck-up day gets cancelled for clean-up
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