Talk:Chanel College (Geelong)/Comments

Chanel College as a boarding school was a milestone in the development of secondary education in Victoria. It holds equivalent importance as Summerhill in UK, and for similar reasons. The absence of public comment about the school is mystifying. A contact point is chanelcollegeoldboys@gmail.com

Chanel compared to Summerhill

There might be some similarities. For example the SRC (but many schools have an SRC). Quite frankly at Chanel I found most of the SRC class reps for my class both useless and incompetent as leaders and innovators.

A better example would be the magazine Champion which was produced and edited by the students. It was a publication that did not back away from contraversy. Another example would have to be the science club and even the Captain and vice Captain of the First XVIII were expected to show leadership and initiative.

But unlike Summerhill in the UK (not to be confused with Summerhill in Eireland) Chanel College had no shortage of rules and regulations and a discipline Master as well!

(I was at Chanel form 1967 to 1970 inclusive.)