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Generations of boys from Cranbrook School in
Generations of boys from Cranbrook School in 's east have endured rival private college students chanting a childish taunt across rugby fields and playgrounds.
'Get a girl, get a girl, 핑카지노주소 get a girl if you can; if you can't get a girl, get a Cranbrook man,' goes one recent version of a decades-old rhyme.
The catchcry has changed slightly with the times but the slur always stays t
Pupils at Scots College further up Victoria Road at Bellevue Hill were once even known to mockingly doff their hats and offer a seat to Cranbrook boys on buses and
Now the all-male Anglican college and its mega-wealthy benefactors are embroiled in a schoolyard fight over whether the 104-year-old institution should become co-educ
(image: ) One of Australia's most elite private colleges is divided by a bid to allow girls to attend the all-boys Cranbrook School at Bellevue Hill in Sydney's east.
Among the parents supporting the proposed change are billionaire Atlassian founder Scott Farquhar and his wife Kim
(image: ) Cranbrook School was established as an all-boys Anglican college in Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill in 1918.
A plan to make the school co-educational was circulated by headmaster Nicholas Sampson among senior staff and 핑카지노주소 school directors in
il lyearBillionaires are battling with other business and political heavyweights over whether boys and girls should mix as teenagers behind the school's wro
irotes.These parents are understandably passionate about their children's education. Annual fees at Cranbrook are up to $75,489 for a boarder and $39,894
a day. The move to introduce girls at Cranbrook - at first in Years 11 and 12 - is supported by the country's third richest man, Scott Farquhar, the co-founder and CEO of Atlassian who is worth an estimate
6.41ion.Farquhar and his wife Kim Jackson have offered to sponsor scholarships for girls coming from other schools to has
the ess.Those against the move include former federal Labor minister turned political commentator Graham Richardson, famous for his personal motto 'wha
r ites'. (image: ) Those against the move to make Cranbrook co-educational include former federal Labor minister turned political commentator Graham Richardson, who is famous for his personal motto 'whatever it takes'.
Richardson is pictured
wifandaThe conflict has led to accusations about a lack of transparency and featured sometimes fiery debate. It has not helped smooth concerns that the proposal was revealed not by the school itself but through a story in the Sydney M
ng Hd. Evan Hughes, a Cranbrook old boy and son of the late art dealer Ray Hughes, referred to the school's unwanted old reputation in an opinion piece for the s
newsr. 'Instantly the age-old joke popped into my mind: were they finally letting boys in?' Hughes wrote, before forcefully arguing for the prop
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