When a teenage Dominic Perrottet gave his valedictorian speech as school captain at the end of year 12, he credited his school, Redfield College, with shaping his future path. “What we take into the future is largely the result of what has happened here at Redfield,” a young Mr Perrottet said in 2000, according to then-school principal Andrew Mullins.
But the extent of Opus Dei’s hold over the schools and their communities is disputed and, according to some, overstated.Tangara and Redfield were founded by the Parents for Education Foundation in the 1980s and each have Opus Dei chaplains. The PARED founders, some of whom were Opus Dei members, started the schools based on their belief that parents should have greater responsibility over their children’s education; a key Catholic teaching.
Parents who have children at the schools say they are drawn to the strong sense of community, advocacy of parental involvement and support for family relationships. Tangara and Redfield also run a unique one-on-one mentoring program, where each child meets with a staff member once a fortnight to check on their academic, social and moral development. Parents are invited into that process once a term.
“The lines between the religious order of Opus Dei and the school are intentionally blurred,” a former student who graduated from Tangara in the late 2000s said. She requested anonymity because her family members are involved with the community. Dr Mullins said his tenure at the school – between 1996 and 2010 – emphasised service and civic life. He would take students on excursions to NSW Parliament House and often invite politicians, business people and families to speak.He said those speakers included former Labor premier Bob Carr, NSW Liberal Party president Phillip Ruddock, Labor politician Tony Burke and former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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natassiazc marywardy I wonder if the other day what Carnaby Joy tried to say is that this week the Spanish Inquisition will start ruling in NSW, in the name of god, blood and fraud. If you thought the Banana Republic of Gladys was bad, wait for Catholic apostolic fundamentalism to burn it all down.
natassiazc marywardy GOD my save us now we got a premier and a prime minister swimming in Christianity don't tell me we become like IRAN run by religions leaders
natassiazc marywardy A church whose heirarchy systematically allowed the abuse of hundreds of thousands of children by thousands of its staff. Do we really want them in charge?
natassiazc marywardy Oh for goodness sake 🙄
natassiazc marywardy Look at this sick image... inculcating FABLES into young plastic minds. They are performing a pagan sacrifice ritual. What if their jebus died in an electric chair?
natassiazc marywardy My condolences....to NSW
natassiazc marywardy Brainwashing the youth. It’s 2021 and we still have nutters believing in this shit.
natassiazc marywardy This ain’t going to end well for NSW is it?
natassiazc marywardy Look Mum, we made this in woodwork class
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natassiazc marywardy A school that charges $17,000 per annum in year 12 is not a school that can possibly help students understand what it’s like in the real world Yet another elite school turning out Liberal Party plutocrats advocating for money for themselves and poverty for everybody else
natassiazc marywardy Singapore already 80 vaccinated and now covid cases .deaths and hospital admittance going through the roof!!!!!!!
natassiazc marywardy Did he become a premier of a church or the state of NSW?
natassiazc marywardy Interesting
natassiazc marywardy And now Perrottet is the cross we all have to bear
natassiazc marywardy Who cares? Stop trying to bring up his religion.
natassiazc marywardy I find it distasteful for ministers of the state not to have their own children educated in public schools.
natassiazc marywardy Why do you have this bee in your bonnet about the Catholics? Its not 1954 nowadays. CaroDiRusso
natassiazc marywardy Religion out of public schools and public money out of religious institutions.
natassiazc marywardy Oh No! Not another Catholic!! Hope he keeps his religious beliefs to himself.