Dear reader as you might be well aware, the end of year speech night at the exclusive Bravenswood Ladies Grammar (BLG) went awry.

Cynthia Baynes, ” Baynesey” being congratulated as School captain for 2015 by the president of the board and head of the school council.

Cynthia Baynes the current School Captain spoke about “Bravo”, and the culture wherein; “modern schools were being run more and more like businesses where everything becomes financially motivated, where more value is placed on those who provide good publicity or financial benefits”. This outrageous claim was made in public, at the school’s Speech Night. Neither the Headmistress nor Chairman, (President of the Board) were given the opportunity of a reply. Outraged by this attack on BLG, and the ‘gagging’ of the obvious spokespeople, the president and life member of the Bravenswood Ladies Grammar Old Girls Association (BLGOGA) Bellerephon (Bunty) Bivalve Beauregarde, (nee Beaurepaire) has asked PCBYCP for ‘right of reply’ to this scurrilous speech. We print here without alteration Ms B. B. Beauregarde’s reply.

“Bunty’ Beauregarde, (no relation to G.T) busy as chair of BLGOGA

” Sending a shock-wave through the entire school community”

Mr Finlayson, (“Finno”)Head of the Classics department, expresses his; “Bitter disappointment” at Ms. Baynse’s ‘betrayal’.

Dear Cockburn and Poole, 
Please give me a moment to express my disdain in regards to the recent ambush foisted upon us, by the School Captain. In my mind I would not have been surprised that such claims may be leveled by some of the unfortunate dependents we’ve adopted in our ‘Come Together indigenous student programme’, where select lucky indigenous children are granted the privilege of aspiring to be like us. I would not be surprised if in their native naivety they were confused. But to hear such bilge from one of our own has sent a tremor, nay a shockwave through the entire school community. There are extenuating circumstances I am not willing to divulge, but I can tell you this much, Miss Baynes has truly slipped through the net. I am also conducting on my very own initiative a inquiry amongst the staff, as I believe that someone in the Humanities and Arts Department must have seeded this mischief in the mind of one so impressionable. There have been well founded whisperings of deviancy within this Department, and in fact some have been known to think our National Anthem as ‘Racist’! Reciprocity is at the core of the value system we share, why then this abrogation of principle and service? And why this ingratitude? I’ll tell you.

Miss Baynes represents the cult of narcissus, (‘The Life of I’), if you will, so prevalent among people her age. She has no idea just how privileged she is to wear the school uniform and Prefect Badge, nor of the sacrifices that we of the school community must, and continue willingly to make. She has no inkling of the tradition and gravitas attendant upon her station as elected School Captain, because she is not just an over indulged spoilt little brat, but an ungrateful and uncharitable malcontent.

The Federal Science and Innovation Minister, The Rt. Hon. Christopher Pyne MP expresses his dissappointment in Baynes, ” letting the team down”. Shown leaving the floor of Parliament with Baynsey’s Asio File and his recommendations to the Tertiary Institutions Admissions Board.

Our school motto is implicit “semper ad meliora”, which translates as “always towards better things”, and what irks me is that she has been a beneficiary of our extensive and well publicised educational, building and foundation initiatives and yet spurns those very gifts. As a BLG girl she must know that she is part of a privileged elite, and with privilege comes responsibility. The responsibility to understand that there are those who are unable and unwilling to participate in our society. She would have discovered this unalterable fact through our social and community services programme. Miss Baynes would have been aware of the fact that the disadvantaged, by being lazy, shiftless and greedy, have wasted their allotted opportunities in life and are to be pitied. Miss Baynes would have seen, as a BLG girl such foolishness and abrogation of financial responsibilities must only end in despair, and yet in spite of this she bites the very hand that feeds her. And as a BLG student she should understand that our Federal Government provides significant funding to us so that we can provide the intellect and leadership for future generations. Her words have put this state and indeed our country at risk.