Newington College is still facing grief over its decision to let girls in after a century-plus of having none of that; this time it’s not just the old boys protesting but the ones still there:
Inner west boys’ school Newington College is set to go into 2025 facing the possibility of two legal battles over its controversial plans to admit girls to the 161-year-old institution.
A current student has launched action in the NSW Supreme Court alleging that the school’s governing council contravened the terms of the school’s 19th-century charitable trust by implementing its plan to admit girls from 2026.
A statement of claim filed last Thursday says members of the school council had breached their duties of an original deed of indenture by considering, and planning to implement, the move to co-ed.
It says the word “youth” used in the original 1873 trust is limited to the education and advancement of boys and young men and that the school’s governing council “breached the Trust Purpose by paying, applying and/or setting aside trust funds held subject to the Trust Purpose on in connection with […] implementing its decision to transition Newington College into a co-educational school.”
The boy – known as student A – cannot be identified after the court issued a non-disclosure order and a psychiatrist’s report said he faced being bullied and shunned if his identity was to become known.
Personally I’m kind of OK with this little shit being bullied and shunned. What children all of these fucking people are.
