High Profile Private School Battling a Huge Cheating Scandal

Students at a Sydney Private School has been caught cheating on an exam. 

Wippa went to a private boys school. Did he ever cheat? We'll leave it to Fitzy and Kate to tell you.

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Speaker 1: This is a fiery podcast.

Speaker 2: If someone was telling you that the investigation process was

Speaker 2: still in its early phases. Now, if I'd done the

Speaker 2: wrong thing and I someone said that to me, that

Speaker 2: would make me very nervous because it would mean that

Speaker 2: there was a lot to come. And there were a

Speaker 2: lot of discussions going on behind closed doors.

Speaker 3: You weren't across.

Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows how it's going to turn out, and

Speaker 2: you're waiting. There's a school in Sydney, very prestigious school,

Speaker 2: Newington College actually.

Speaker 1: A few times. Yeah, there you go. They're not putting money.

Speaker 1: They let the girls in there. Yeah, let the sisters

Speaker 1: into that. Have you got the grandfather who was really.

Speaker 2: It was? It's one of your favorite pieces of audio.

Speaker 1: This is Yeah.

Speaker 4: This is where they found out that the school was

Speaker 4: going co ed and there was going to be girls

Speaker 4: going to the school. And a father rocked up and

Speaker 4: he got rid of it.

Speaker 1: Was an old pal grandfather. I'm an old boy the

Speaker 1: school and my son is also an old boy. And

Speaker 1: the intention was always that I have a grandson, but

Speaker 1: I won't bring him to a co ed school. It

Speaker 1: might be at Amaphrodite.

Speaker 3: You never know. I'm just saying this I'm saying there

Speaker 3: is a wide range of differences and every one of

Speaker 3: them should be celebrated, so that old stick of the

Speaker 3: mud can get lost.

Speaker 2: I think. I think he's pretty old school, and they

Speaker 2: don't let the ladies in here.

Speaker 1: They'll ruin. It'll go to ruin.

Speaker 2: I really regret taking somebody off like that too. I

Speaker 2: know that was very quick. I need to make amends

Speaker 2: for that.

Speaker 1: No, you don't, don't ever think So what's his school done?

Speaker 2: Okay, two students are under investigation, and I can't. I mean,

Speaker 2: I feel for them. I know, perhaps allegedly they have

Speaker 2: done the wrong thing. They have gained access into the

Speaker 2: staff room to try and access assessment exam papers.

Speaker 3: What online like files, electric computer files.

Speaker 2: That's not what I thought, because I'm not I'm not

Speaker 2: as advanced paper. I think they're going through like Harry Potter,

Speaker 2: and they're changing an.

Speaker 1: E to a B, which is quite easy to do.

Speaker 1: I've done it.

Speaker 4: I don't.

Speaker 2: I actually don't know any of that. All I know

Speaker 2: is that security has been breached. I don't know how

Speaker 2: they've found out. Discipline reaction for the students has not

Speaker 2: yet been decided, but the school insists there's been no

Speaker 2: damage to the integrity of the education of other students,

Speaker 2: And it seems as though the assessment was an in

Speaker 2: school assessment and not like an exam state it plan. No,

Speaker 2: it wasn't anything like that.

Speaker 1: It's do you know what? Okay? The question is if

Speaker 1: you get if you give.

Speaker 4: The child a hypothetical, you've got an opportunity to go

Speaker 4: see results or change results. You're there with your mates,

Speaker 4: you look at each other. What decision are you making.

Speaker 4: I'm pretty confident.

Speaker 1: That a majority of the kids that probably would take

Speaker 1: it that they want to get faster.

Speaker 3: But what upsets me more than anything is those kids

Speaker 3: are prepared to put their reputation on the line for

Speaker 3: the sake of marks at school. Do you know what

Speaker 3: I mean? The person you are as a kid growing

Speaker 3: up and as you develop is a lot bigger and

Speaker 3: a lot more important than whether you get an A

Speaker 3: or an F on whatever that next test coming up.

Speaker 1: Is that you don't know that time, and you took.

Speaker 3: The risk for the person you are to get in

Speaker 3: possible trouble, which it looks like these guys are going

Speaker 3: to guys or girls?

Speaker 4: Did you do I mean you went to an exclusive

Speaker 4: school and I do completely failed.

Speaker 2: You should have done a bit of this start through actions.

Speaker 4: Did you.

Speaker 1: I mean you had a chance. You got sixteen out

Speaker 1: of one hundred.

Speaker 4: But was there a chance for you to go in

Speaker 4: there and change the sick sixteen to seventy six or something.

Speaker 1: No, No, there really wasn't.

Speaker 3: No.

Speaker 2: I'd have to know your numbers to do That's it.

Speaker 1: I or use a pencil.

Speaker 3: No, you guys tell me what I should have done,

Speaker 3: mad A. You tell me what it was like back then.

Speaker 3: I'd love you guys to paint the picture and share

Speaker 3: with me what I did back then. It'd be awesome.

Speaker 1: Kate Richie all the Heart of the Stone, with the

Speaker 1: Scotch Scotchy boys and all.

Speaker 3: The hardest part was when Heath Daniels, one of the kids,

Speaker 3: he'd already got his results and I found out about it.

Speaker 3: He got twenty five out of one hundred, and I

Speaker 3: came home and I said to Dad, you're not going

Speaker 3: to believe it. Heath Daniels, he got twenty five. He said,

Speaker 3: grab a seat, mate. I made a phone call for

Speaker 3: you because I didn't want you to be alone when

Speaker 3: you got your result. I said, well, it can't be

Speaker 3: worse than Heath Daniels. He said he got sixteen point

Speaker 3: six rounded up to seven.

Speaker 1: Now and now Heath Daniels owns Amazon.

Speaker 3: He started Amazon, sold it to Jeff for a couple

Speaker 3: of bill and here I am telling stories about Heath

Speaker 3: Daniels and sixteen point six. You know, different strokes for

Speaker 3: different folks.

Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Speaker 1: Want to be anywhere else spot on K Richie. This

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