Thursday 23 October, 2008
Bullying? At Xavier?
'Principal Chris McCabe denied there was a culture of bullying at the school.
Nick "was just at the wrong place at the wrong time" on Monday, he said.'
Seems to me that poor Nick has been in the wrong place for about six years.
Can you imagine the shit that would go down if this happened at a Government school? In this case, they will probably just increase their funding.
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