St Peter’s College school board chair should resign, the school principal says. The Ministry of Education placed the Gore Catholic school under statutory management at the end of last month. Principal Tara Quinney (pictured) says she has no confidence in the school’s board chair, Ruth Mitchell, to lead. She says she has a dysfunctional relationship Read more
Being a lesbian at a Catholic school was a source of fear and shame to Kiwi pop stars Ladyhawke and Broods singer Georgia Nott. Pip Brown (aka Ladyhawke of My Delirium fame) says she felt ‘constant fear’ as a teenager because she was a lesbian at a Catholic school. “Growing up in the Catholic school Read more
Moves are afoot to free up land at the former St Mary’s School site in Gisborne for at least 30 new houses. The board of Gisborne Holdings Ltd, which operates as Gisborne District Council’s commercial arm, have signed off a subdivision for the disused site. Read more
The number of Catholic school students in New Zealand continues to hold steady. There are about 160 additional students comparing 2017 to 2018. This represents a less than 0.1% decline in the total share of students in New Zealand. This is the first year that non-European/Pākeha students represent over half of students in Catholic schools. Read more
Mother, father – they used to be ok – but they will no longer be included on school enrolment forms at at Catholic primary school in London. The school was ordered to revise its admission forms after a parent objected the terms “mother” and “father” discriminated against separated, step or gay parents. Read more
In a “very rare” ruling, the Catholic Church has found a nun guilty of sexually abusing a child in her care. Following an inquiry, the Catholic Church has ruled Mother Lucia guilty of historic sexual and physical abuse against a Christchurch schoolboy “on the balance of probabilities”. The prioress died in 1997, aged 90. Continue reading
A Melbourne Catholic school will let a girl wear pants instead of a tunic to school after a social media campaign to change its uniform policy. The campaign started after media coverage of grade 1 pupil Asha Cariss’s objections over not being allowed to wear pants to school. The school’s previous uniform policy was that Read more
A six-year-old boy was suspended from a US Catholic school after he pretended to shoot another student with an imaginary bow and arrow. The principal of Our Lady of Lourdes School in Cincinnati wrote in a letter that he had “no tolerance for any real, pretend, or imitated violence”. The boy’s parents said their son Read more
A Catholic high school in Pennsylvania is requiring female students who want to attend the school prom to submit a photo of their dress for pre-approval. The policy of Delone Catholic High School in McSherrytown has angered parents and students ahead of the prom in May. A photo of the prom dress has to be Read more