Xavier College suspends 'hundreds' of Year 12 students

[memka]

The Yr 7s at my school apparently started a petition to ban my muck up day.
Didn't happen though

We had the usual silly stringing people at school in morning then a slideshow of pics from all the Yr 12 friendship groups. Then we put on a concert for the whole school then had a luncheon with the teachers.

Afterwards most people went into "town" aka central geelong. My friends and I went to a pub, saw a movie then went clubbing- all in our muck up day outfits lol.

[Collin Li]

The Yr 7s at my school apparently started a petition to ban my muck up day.
Didn't happen though

Brats!

It reminds me (sort of irrelevant, but still) of how a survey was done on whether our school should get rid of uniform (this was before year 9, at Brunswick Secondary College). The year 7s overwhelmingly agreed, while the year 12s tended to disagree.

The argument was that the year 12s realised that the 'game' of buying new clothes and keeping up with the latest fashion at school to look cool was ridiculous. They understood that and the younger kids didn't. It's an interesting thing though... it's sort of like an arms race. There's a similar situation with some sport, where helmets are mandatory. The argument is that if it was optional to wear helmets ("Hey, it's your safety!"), then people would choose not to wear them, in order to remain competitive. This was because helmets actually also impaired your peripheral vision. The destructive race actually made it socially efficient for them to spontaneously agree to make helmets mandatory for everyone in the league, so that the competitive nature of sport would not result in such self-sacrifice.

[Mao]

I love helmets.

and then the other day when I was driving I saw this duck crossing the freeway on-ramp, and got accidetally. this somehow reminds me of helmets and I'd like to express my strong opinions that RSPCA should have cars at every on-ramp. How lovely are lollipops.

[orsel]

It reminds me (sort of irrelevant, but still) of how a survey was done on whether our school should get rid of uniform (this was before year 9, at Brunswick Secondary College). The year 7s overwhelmingly agreed, while the year 12s tended to disagree.

(this was before year 9, at Brunswick Secondary College)

Brunswick Secondary College

LOL!

I'm surprised they were so mature back then. Not that they're immature at the moment, but...

edit: 69 posts rawr

[brendan]

Xavier College learning a bitter lesson
http://www.theage.com.au/national/xavier-college-learning-a-bitter-lesson-20081024-58ac.html?page=-1

[brendan]

Looks like elite graduate business schools aren't immune either http://dealbreaker.com/2008/10/post-72.php

[dusty_girl1144]

OMG EVERYONE IN MY AREA THOUGHT IT WAS MY SCHOOL WHO WAS IN TROUBLE.

my schools name is st francis xavier college...

in the local library people were like "I THOUGHT YOUR YR 12'S WERE ALL SUSPENDED" i was like... i wouldnt be suprised if my school made the news for being the worst school ^^