The Official Steam Community Group for Newington College of Sydney, Australia.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/parents-former-students-distraught-by-newington-colleges-decision-to-allow-girls-to-enrol/d2799d4a-efd8-4209-a4e4-b14bb80b89a6

Hi, my name is Jeremy Mathers Clay, and I am a proud old Newingtonian from 72-77 and I have only just realised that am just one of many stakeholders of this wonderful school who are angry, annoyed and upset with the shock decision of the School Council and the new Headmaster to turn Newington into a combined boys and girls school after 160 years of Newington operating as a college for boys and boys only.

The decision has effectively and immediately taken away the choice of fee paying families to send their boys to a much loved and respected institution that specialises and is world renowned in boy’s education and has been specialising in it and known for it for over 160 years.

We call on the School Council and Headmaster of Newington College to immediately reverse the co-ed decision that they unbelievably was unanimously approved by a vote of 17-0 in what many think is a gross a gross error of judgement that crosses the boundaries of reasonableness and negatively impacts the current and future son’s of Newington and their families. We will forgive them for this indiscretion and temporary loss of direction and purpose caused to the college.

Let’s remind ourselves of an obvious thing.

There are plenty of co-educational public schools in Sydney for parents to send their boys and girls to but there are only very few specialist boy’s schools and none that come close to being like Newington College which has to be the most beautiful school in the whole world and a school that offers an all round educational experience for those who want to be magnified and amplified to reach and exceed their ultimate potential.

We need to act and to act quickly by making sure that we have all signed the petition and have made a financial pledge, however small or large, to the “save Newington” class action where we plan to legally oppose Newington on this injustice that has caused concern and anxiety to many of the Newingtonians who have made up the silent majority but won’t let their College be changed and damaged by a small group of people who think that we are a simple pushover for their woke agendas.

Let’s remind eachother that it is ok to be a boy and it’s Ok to be a Newington boy without having this choice removed from families forever and changing Newington for the worse.

It’s hard to describe Newington to anyone who has not experienced it as a student and parent.

But today after I have returned after many years, I am once again reminded that it has a place on my heart and I have fallen in love again just like the very first day that I came here.

I am certain that the stakeholders of Newington, which I am one of many, love and care for Newington more that the current Administrators, School Council and Headmaster do as we would never betray her by making wholesale changes that are akin to a wrecking ball exercise designed to shoehorn the school and the school community into a type and a definition that they are not.

We have become the laughing stock of all Sydney’s private schools and have given endless satisfaction to the Newington haters by dividing our own community with a scandal that could never have been foreseen by anyone including the college Founders. You can just imaging the raucous laughter being expressed at dinner parties at our expense. There is no need for fine wines and French champagne because everyone is partying on Newington’s misfortune and grande scandal.

Let’s act now and act boldly to give strength to the current and future families of Newington and show them the spirit of Newington transcends generations and flows through everyone’s heart, minds and veins.

https://www.change.org/p/overturn-newington-college-s-decision-to-become-co-ed-and-bring-back-newington-culture