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Four Xavier expelled suspended for shoplifting

Published: July 28, 2010

Xavier College has expelled four students who played a leading part in a shoplifting binge during a school trip in New Zealand.

College principal Christopher Hayes asked the four to leave following a probe into the thefts at Queenstown just over a week ago, reports The Age.

"After conducting a thorough investigation, including comprehensive discussions with the students involved and their parents, it has become clear that all students involved have shown genuine regret and remorse for their actions," Mr Hayes is quoted saying.

"I have asked four students, because of their level of involvement, to leave the college. Their behaviour was unacceptable and goes against everything Xavier College stands for."

On arriving home, 16 of the 30 who made the trip were suspended for a week.

The remaining suspended students will be forced to do 35 hours each of community service, have been placed on a probationary enrolment and will have their one-week school suspensions extended for up to two weeks, he said, according to an AAP report.

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College expels four after shop theft (The Age)

Four Xavier students expelled (Sydney Morning Herald/AAP)

 

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Recent Comments

  1. The students behaviour may go 'against everything the College stands for'. However, the expulsion of students who 'have shown genuine regret and remorse for their actions' surely goes against everything the Gospel, and therfore Catholic education stands for.

    Posted By: Barry Hughes, Albion

  2. Barry: It surely doesn't. There is such a thing as justice, and the four ringleaders appear to be receiving it. If they are truly contrite I'm sure they would agree with me.
    Could a logical extension of your logic be that we should let other criminals go free provided they show genuine regret and remorse?

    Posted By: Paul Keen of Dalby, Queensland

  3. They're only being suspended for a week, Barry. Actions have consequences. The punishment does not seem to me to be excessive, but seems appropriate - whereas a longer period would not be just. Boys get suspended for things like smoking in school uniform. Stealing is far more serious. How silly it would be if they were unpunished simply because they said 'Sorry!'

    Posted By: Elston - Canberra

  4. Paul Keen of Dalby: Adolescent boys tend to do silly things, and I sure the boys involved were not in need of stealing to make ends meet.
    I would have thought that 'community service' with a catholic welfare agency on the streets on the weekends would have been a sufficient life experience to counter their ski-shop silliness.
    These boys need is a serious wake-up call and not a serious impediment to life options.
    I think the principal has over-reacted and is perhaps more concerned about he ongoing negative publicity for Xavier. He forgets that these boys may well go to be outstanding citizens and will thereby be a further loss to Xavier. Think again, I say.

    Posted By: MJB Melbourne

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