Geelong Grammar School
school
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| Formation | 1855 |
| Headquarters | Geelong,Victoria,Australia |
| Ruling class school. The school's fees are the most expensive in Australia. | |
Geelong Grammar School is an independent Anglican co-educational boarding and day school. The school's main campus is located in Corio on the northern outskirts of Geelong, Victoria. Established in 1855 under the auspices of the Church of England, Geelong Grammar School has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,500 students from Pre-school to Year 12, including 800 boarders from Years 5 to 12[1]. The school's fees are the most expensive in Australia based on a comparison of Year 12 student fees. Until the 1960s it was a boys school.
In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked Geelong Grammar School fourth in Australia's top ten schools for boys, based on the number of its male alumni mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians).[2] Like schools such as Melbourne Grammar and Sydney Grammar, and even more privileged, it has one of the strongest old boy networks in Australia.
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
In September and October 2015, the Royal Commission held a public hearing into sexual abuse at the Geelong Grammar School, an elite Anglican boarding school for boys which had once counted Prince Charles among its students. In 2015-2016 the Royal Commission then investigated the allegations brought forth at the hearings, and handed down a report published in February 2017, which is available on the internet.[3] The report details many incidents of abuse by the school staff between 1956 and 1989, including three Anglican priests, three boarding house masters, and a live-in boarding house assistant. (p. 20-30) One can sense from the testimony of former students that Geelong was a “strict, authoritarian and regimented place” (p. 21), where sexual abuse was just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what would lead an adolescent boy to despair. One complainant said he witnessed “repeated physical and psychological abuse” in addition to sexual abuse, and that there was a “code of silence” about this at the school; all of this left him with a sense of “shame, helplessness and powerlessness.” (p. 29) Three of the sexual abuse cases led in the victims to later struggles with depression, suicidal thoughts, and attempted suicide. (p. 26, 28, 31) Five former staff members of the school were convicted of child sex offences. (p. 31-32)
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071117105925/http://www.boarding.org.au/site/school_detail.cfm?schID=105
- ↑ http://newsstore.smh.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=smh&kw=%22presbyterian+ladies+college%22&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=author&sf=headline&sf=text&rc=10&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=SHD01072295GNI6E8E6E
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201103174950/https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/file-list/Case%20Study%2032%20-%20Findings%20Report%20-%20Geelong%20Grammar%20School.pdf
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