Prestigious Boys’ School Headmaster Criticises ‘Wokeness’ and ‘Victimhood’ Culture

The headmaster of a prestigious school for boys in Sydney has criticised woke culture and “victimhood” within the education and media sectors, in response to a wave of media articles targeting single gender schools. In an opening article in a school publication, Tony George, the head of The King’s School, an Anglican school established by King William IV in 1831, said independent schools for boys had become the target of the government and the media in recent years. “Sections of the government and the press seem intent on deriding independent boy’s schools with any story they can concoct, invariably referencing the kind of clickbait memes that tantalise memetic cliches, such as toxic masculinity linked to stories on single-sex schooling, or elitism linked to stories on school fees and funding,” he wrote....