Sex, schoolkids and where it all goes wrong
Privilege. Porn. Parent-free parties. An alcohol-fuelled climate in which being nice to girls is considered uncool. A wave of sexual assault allegations involving students from some of our top private schools underlines the need to foster a healthier brand of manhood.
May 15, 2021
Private boys’ schools are capturing the nation’s attention because of how frequently young women have cited these schools as hothouses for sexual predation, and for what this might tell us about male and class privilege in Australia.
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Our outrage is missing when it comes to poor kids in the classroom
January 29, 2021 11.55pm
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As a prelude to the release of VCE results in December, this paper tracked down top students from previous years to see where they landed.
Patrick Walker got an ATAR of 99.95 in 2011 and is training to be a paediatrician.
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One of them, Patrick Walker, a 2011 graduate from McKinnon Secondary College, shared some observations that stayed with me. Walker’s perfect ATAR – the competitive ranking system for university admissions – got him into medicine at Monash University. Once there, he was struck by the realisation he was one of the few medical students who attended a public school.
Students reach the end of difficult year
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AFTER a long and anxious wait, Year 12 students have finally received their ATAR scores.
It was a year like no other for the class of 2020, but their long journey finally came to an end when their final results were revealed to them on 30 December.
Lam Yeung finished at the top of the class at Frankston High School. She received an ATAR score of 95.65.
Frankston High School senior campus principal Helen Wilson said “Lam is an outstanding and conscientious student who strives to achieve her best at all times. In my 35 years of teaching, it would be difficult to find a more dedicated student. Lam always completes all learning tasks to a very high standard.”