VIC: Four Xavier students expelled
MELBOURNE - Four boys from Melbourne's Xavier College caught shoplifting on a school trip to New Zealand last week have been expelled.
The four were reportedly expelled from the exclusive Catholic boys' school on Tuesday after they were among 16 students apprehended following a $A5000 stealing spree at ski shops in the South Island snow resort of Queenstown.
"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," principal Christopher Hayes said on The Age website.
"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."
The other 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.
Xavier College, a Jesuit school with about 2000 students, is one of Melbourne's most elite Catholic colleges with fees of about $18,000 a year.
The school has attracted negative publicity in the past, including the entire Year 12 group being suspended in 2008 when end-of-year antics led to one student being taken to hospital amid public complaints of students' drunken and violent behaviour.
-AAP
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