Sydney students suspended for Purim binge drinking
Oryana Kaufman and Dan Goldberg
SIXTY Year 12 Moriah College students were suspended for one day last week after they turned up at a school pre-Purim party intoxicated with alcohol.
The students met on Bondi Beach early on Friday morning, March 11, where they got drunk before going to the school party. They were suspended for the day on Monday, March 14, and when they returned to school the next day, they were told their Year 12 privileges — which include the right to leave the college campus when they do not have class — had been withdrawn until the end of term two (June 28).
In addition, members of the Moriah student leadership body involved in the incident were ordered to hand over their badges until they earn them back and to complete an educational program designed in consultation with experts.
One of the students, Josh Susskind, was expelled from the college not just because of his behaviour on the day but because he had a previous disciplinary record.
In a statement to the
AJN, Moriah College principal Roy Steinman said: “They were specifically warned that the consumption of alcohol before school would not be tolerated and that anybody who arrived at school having consumed alcohol would be suspended and receive further consequences.
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