St Aloysius College threatens to call police on Year 12 students
A second private school on Sydney’s north shore has had to take drastic steps to put a stop to ‘criminal, dangerous and highly offensive behaviours’ planned by Year 12 students — including threatening to call the police.
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An exclusive Sydney private school has threatened to call the police on students, ban them from college for the rest of the year and force them to sit the HSC elsewhere if they were caught taking part in planned nefarious activities.
St Aloysius College, at Kirribilli, last week discovered that some Year 12 students were considering taking part in some “very inappropriate and concerning activities”.
It comes as students from Shore School, in nearby North Sydney, planned a drug, alcohol and crime-filled muck-up day treasure hunt.
In response to St Aloysius College’s own boys behaving badly crisis, the prestigious school’s rector, Father Ross Jones SJ, wrote to all Year 12 students and parents regarding a scavenger hunt planned for September 25.
Fr Jones said the hunt included the address of Principal Mark Tannock and students were encouraged to carry out an “obscene” act at his home.
“In particular, we have been made aware of an overnight competition that invites criminal, manifestly dangerous, and highly offensive behaviours (a number of which are acutely sexist in nature),” he wrote.
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“Clearly, if any student should engage in these activities, the College will have no hesitation in contacting the police and then banning him from the College for the remainder of 2020,” he wrote.
“This will include the voluntary study programs, the Valete Dinner and the Year 12 Formal. “Furthermore, it will mean he will be required to sit the HSC examinations as an independent candidate at another examination centre.
“Such an outcome would be a very sad consequence for the student and his family. We all want to ensure that this coming week is a positively joyful and uplifting one for all of the Class of 2020”.
Fr Jones moved quickly to shut down any parent keen to use the excuse that “boys will be boys at break-up time”.
“I have never before seen anything generated here so gross and so unworthy or our young men,” he wrote.
In another email to parents, the principal said the boys involved had “acknowledged that they (had) made a significant mistake”.
“This is a failing of youth and a good lesson for them about the type of men they want to be and the values by which they want to be known,” Mr Tannock wrote.
“It is likely that public commentary will question the character of our students and of our school community.
“Yes, these young men have made a serious error of judgment.
“However, we expect them to grow and learn as a result of our forgiveness and their reflection.”