In a huge win and big F U, a current student who sued Sydney’s Newington College in a bid to stop the school from going co-ed has LOST.
Ahhhhh, no wonder the Sydney weather was bang-on today!!!
ICYMI, Newington College — a private school where tuition costs about $40,000 a year — made headlines last year after an anonymous student (known as Student A) sued the 161-year-old boys school after it decided that it would begin to admit girls in 2026.
Why, you ask? Well, Student A argued that the decision violated the terms of its original charitable trust from the 19th century, with legal documents noting that the term “youth” in the trust was specific to “the education and advancement of boys and young men”.
But now, in a delectable decision, Justice Guy Parker (peep the first name) has concluded that the trust’s use of the word “youth” is “gender neutral”.
“[The] word youth in the 1873 trustee was used in a gender neutral sense and does not mandate males only at the college,” Parker said, per The Guardian.
1000 BOOMS FOR PARKER INNIT.
Alongside the big L, Student A was also ordered to pay legal costs. The total has yet to be determined, the publication reports.
Save Newington College responds to Justice Guy Parker’s decision
Following Parker’s decision, the main parents and old boys’ group lobbying against the co-ed decision, known as ‘Save Newington College’, said it was “disappointed” with Wednesday’s outcome, but will still stand strong with tradition.
“Together with Student A (whose identity is protected by a suppression order) the Save Newington College group is disappointed by today’s decision of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, in which Justice Parker ruled that the College Council’s intention to proceed with its plans to make Newington College co-educational is not a breach of the 1873 Trust Deed that originally codified the establishment of the school,” the statement said, per The Australian.
“Today’s decision, while respected, is at odds with the understanding held by generations of Old Boys, parents, staff, and community members — that Newington was founded, funded and entrusted as a school for boys, consistent with the original deeds.”
Furthermore, in its statement, the group highlighted how Student A’s complaints weren’t about “resisting change”, but how it’s about “honouring the school’s founding values, its purpose, and the legacy”.
“The campaign by Student A to protect Newington’s heritage has never been about resisting change. It has always been about ensuring that changes honour the school’s founding values, its purpose, and the legacy that thousands have contributed to over more than 160 years,” the statement continued.
“Student A’s efforts have also been about highlighting the many risks and pitfalls that will be encountered, now and into the future. Despite today’s Court decision, high risks remain around the future academic and financial performance of the school and the continuation of its GPS traditions.
“Particular challenges around successful integration of future girls, anticipated pushback from surrounding all-girls schools and retreat by former supporters of the Newington Foundation have not been addressed.”
With this sweet, sweet victory — let us remind you of all the men who were crying over the school’s decision to bring in the girlies.
When Newington College first announced the decision to go co-ed, back in November 2023, parents of ex-students and past students (known as ‘old boys’) began to protest outside the school’s gates, and some of the scenes from these protests were bloody bonkers.
People were literally crying, folks were claiming that the decision would turn boys into “second-class citizens”, and others, of course, called it an effect of the “woke” movement.
All I’ve gotta say is womp womp.
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