Where the girls are

The
Catholic Weekly
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Sydney
14 March 2004

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Where the girls are

Boys and girls from La Salle College mingling in the schoolyard; the girls say that the opportunity to interact with male students will assist them in the workplace

By Damir Govorcin

Malynda Georges is used to being around the opposite sex, having grown up with four older brothers.

However, she was annoyed that some of the girls at her last school “seemed to be infatuated with the opposite sex because there were none around”.

Malynda decided she needed to change schools to improve her education, so this year she has taken the opportunity to be one of the pioneer girls at the newly co-educational LaSalle Catholic College, Bankstown.

La Salle has broken from tradition to open up its doors to girls in Year 11 after being a boys-only school since 1951.

Malynda says: “I found the environment that the girls created at my last school was quite materialistic.

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