he attended school the next day because of an act that left him feeling suicidal. “He and his friends were all pointing and laughing at me,” Mr Robinson continued “I then realised the whole thing had been an orchestrated prank.”
This is just one of many harrowing experiences the 2013 graduate had during his 13 years at the school in the city’s inner-east. It’s also one that led him to protest against what he says is a toxic culture at the 103-year-old college.
Early last week, Mr Robinson “broke in” to the school and set his old blazer alight, with images of the protest shared garnering huge attention on social media. He said “something snapped” when he saw that Collingwood Football Club player Jordan De Goey – also a former student of the school – had been charged with forcibly touching a 35-year-old woman at a bar in New York.
“This week, Jordy De Goey, who attended my same-sex Catholic high school, was arrested in New York for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman on a dance floor. Unsurprising given my school’s culture,” Mr Robinson wrote on social media alongside photos of his protest. “I broke into the school yesterday to protest. Something snapped in me this time. That patriarchal culture I saw inside the school gates burst out and made its way to New York. My new home for the last five years.”
