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What an utterly ridiculous comment.
Few, if any, students at “high fee private school(s)” choose to attend there. It’s the parent’s decision. And the parents choose it to give the children the best opportunities in life. Whether the decision is a correct one or achieves the intended goal is a different matter. And as for cadets, extra curricular activities are mandatory. The student (or parent) have no option but participate. And the options in year 9, during Kennett’s time, would likely have been sea scouts, cadets or St Johns (the latter being met with derision by peers). A cadet leader is and appointment recognising leadership qualities by peers and staff. To ridicule a student for this is akin to mocking them for being elected to captain of football, a prefect or captain of the school.
So yes, TBC, you need to know more. Like Kennett or not, to tar every student who has attended a attended a private school and hold a position of responsibility is a somewhat pathetic stereotype from a grown adult. Josh Kennedy was a private school attendee. Nick Smith was a captain of football at the same private school as Kennett, and,
I believe, a cadet. The fact that Kennett was a cadet leader only demonstrated he was perhaps destined for a leadership position. But, as we see littered throughout history up until this very day, not all capable leaders are “good” leaders.
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