Students at Top Sydney School Run Underground ‘Fight Club’
Posted by Amber Robinson at 9:20 AM on May 27, 2009
Students at Sydney’s exclusive Knox Grammar school reportedly ran an underground fight club on school premises, and it seems the tradition may have been running for at least seven years – since the release of the hit movie.
The SMH first reported that at least a dozen boys took part in the brutal fight club in a campus basement for up to three weeks. Students who did not want to participate were allegedly attacked, punched and threatened, allegedly within sight of teachers.
Not quite what you’d expect when you’re paying $AU20,000 a year to send your kid there, right?
The school initially dismissed the reports as an exaggeration, claiming the matter was “a minor schoolyard skirmish by a small group of boys with a vivid imagination”.
But a new report today suggests The Knox Fight Club is allegedly a seven-year tradition at the school, which has been kept from parents and school authorities because its first rule is “don’t talk about fight club”.
A boy who did break the rule, one of those allegedly assaulted during the fight club, had a death threat issued against him on a social networking site yesterday, police were told last night.
This is some nasty stuff, reminiscent of John Marsden’s The Chocolate War. Why can teenagers be so cruel?
The “Knox Fight Club” had not been running for 7 years. This is a complete lie. It had been running for just over 2 days. The matter was dealt with via school teachers. It was not underground, that is another lie. People who didn’t want to take part, wern’t threatened, this is another lie. There is no rule “Don’t talk about the club” this is another lie. The picture, isn’t even close what it looks like. Whoever wrote this article needs to find reliable sources, before making up stuff like this.