Goulburn Valley Grammar School denies students chanted in sexist video

Video has emerged of Year 12 students belting out a misogynistic chant down a main Shepparton street, with one principal denying his school was involved.

Students have been captured belting out a vile sexist chant down a main Shepparton street in a video shared online.

But Goulburn Valley Grammar School (GVGS) principal Mark Torriero has denied any of their Year 12 students sung the “deeply offensive” lyrics despite a student filming the behaviour.

The video shows a group of boys chanting lyrics which included: “I wish that all the ladies were sheep in the grass, and I was a kiwi I’d do ’em up the a**e.”

It follows similar disgusting chants being sung by St Kevin’s College students last year and Catherine McAuley College students in Bendigo in February.

“We are not certain that any of our students were involved in the chanting,” Mr Torriero said.

“One of our students video recorded the incident. This student insists they did not take part in the chanting and I believe them.”

Mr Torriero said a school investigation determined the incident took place when a large number of “boys and girls” across the region were celebrating the end of Year 12 exams.

He said students from a number of schools across the Goulburn Valley were involved in singing the “sexually explicit, offensive and misogynistic” chant while a number of GVGS students observed them.

Mr Torriero said the video was “appalling and unacceptable” and was not reflective of the culture at the school.

“The chant is not studied as part of our school curriculum,” he said.

“We do not believe there is a cultural problem in our school. We believe that all Australian society needs to do more to promote inclusion and to combat sexist and misogynist attitudes.”

Mr Torriero said the school had “extensive” programs at all levels which specifically challenge these sorts of attitudes as part of their “Respectful Behaviour Policy”.

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