Erindale the new home of voyeuristic violence in the ACT?

Sorry Terry Wrist. The Mackillop students were the perpetrators, but the problem was with Lanyon??? Maybe the Mackillop headmaster could have done something to stop 100 of their students or were they too busy defending their bosses from assorted other allegations that crop up from time to time in the private school system?

I see a lot of Erindale students – some seem good, some not good. Some loud, some quiet, some polite, some obnoxious. They are certainly no worse than dealing with some of the Marist crowd in Woden.

i currently attend another public college and erindale isnt alone. myself and other girls have been harrassed, assaulted and bullied by a particular girl at our school most of this year. she was not even suspended. she was constantly given another chance and it was disgusting. we shouldnt have to be anxious and afraid of leaving our own homes to go to school each morning because one little b*tch cant get over herself and grow up.

At ACT Colleges, students’ college handbooks feature a warning that College is not compulsory and that students whose conduct endangers, hurts or in anyway harms other people or their ability to learn may be removed.

The thugs, the cruel sub human individual who perpetrate such crimes… who hurt and humiliate people should have the maximum punishment possible imposed on them. Not suspension (ie. a holiday) as Hall would do, but expulsion. College is not compulsory, those who come to fight shouldn’t be welcome. And yes, as people have pointed out… the police should get these people. They should work with the school to provide the optimum punishment that will result in justice for the victim and to reform the offender.

But at Erindale, you can bet it will be all Hush Hush! I know all about Micheal Hall, the former principal of Lanyon High School. Rather than face problems, he would sugar coat them, keep them quiet. Like the time around 100 Mackillop students came went to Lanyon to fight, resulting in a brawl at the local shops. Instead of working to prevent the brawl (which many teachers knew off my mid morning), he did nothing until gangs in cars arrived to taunt the year 10s. After a brawl occured at the shops, Hall did not focus on finding the people who started it… no. He focused on “calling in favours” to try to minimize the schools exposure on television. And I guess sugar coating a dodging problems worked for him because he got promoted to college principal. Having Hall as principal… I feel sorry for Erindale. My condolences.

From my memory of Erindale (99) it’s more a result of the change to keep people in school than any lack of corporal punishment or militant lesbianism. For some reason they seemed obsessed with keeping robbing junkie scum in school rather than in jail.

Mael, I’ve had them in my classroom. They want to know what their children are up to. I gladly bring them in. They see the class, warts and all, and have expressed their thanks to me for not putting up with the little “turds” crap.

However, in sayin that, it does make it more difficult for high school classes than primary to have parents come in.

Nyssa, I was referring to the parents of the NON Disruptive students.

Here’s a classic example – student threatens another student with “smacking them in the head”. This is a repeat offender for violence btw. DP and Principal are informed. During the time it takes them to collect student, they make another threat of violence towards another student and allude to “outside help” to do it.

The punishment?

A RED/Stage 3 (the worst of the worst) behaviour card.

Mael, I’ve encouraged parents of disruptive students to sit in my class so I can actually do my job and not have to physically protect other students from being assaulted.

The parents don’t come because they don’t care and they see school as nothing more than a babysitting centre.

That’s it exactly. No accountabilty. These thugs ( male or female) should be charged with assault, front up to court immediately, not months down the track ( in which time they’ve been able to continue their rampage) and made to do community service at least in reparation.

What has happened in society to allow this to become the case?

Where do you want us to start ?
The lesbo brigade running the school system, the anti spankers, the depowerment of teachers to enforce punishment, or my personal favourite, the fallout from the ‘sexual harrassment’ years ?

It is interestiong that we are seeing increasing numbers of violent acts committed by young girls. It used to be the premise of the late teens male reprobate to carry out the violent assaults. What has happened in society to allow this to become the case?