Almost 1000 former Newington College students met in Sydney’s CBD on Wednesday night ahead of the private school’s planned shift to co-education.
Almost 1000 former Newington College students gathered on Wednesday night to vote on a motion of no confidence in the school’s headmaster, the council and the old boys’ union board as the fight over its move to co-education intensifies.
A small fracas erupted just after 9pm as organisers told dozens still queuing that they needed to register their ballot before entering the conference centre’s auditorium, where the meeting had already started.“Do not open the meeting until everyone here can get inside,” one man told meeting organisers. After the small confrontation, the man was told to “settle down” while an organiser warned him he would be asked to leave.
However, about an hour into the meeting, the executive agreed that all five original resolutions could be voted on. In a separate email to ex-pupils, a group of 20 former Newington students who now work at the school said that the motions proposed symbolised “a direct threat to the ONU’s philosophy around inclusion, respect and positive relationship-building within the community”.
One former student, who spoke anonymously to speak freely, said the school’s co-ed consultation process was “botched and misleading.”
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