CATHEDRAL School teacher Ashley Boylan was going to have his beard shaved one way or another on Monday morning.
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He’d promised to say goodbye to his whiskers of three years if the students of his class 6B raised more than $1000 for Project Compassion – and in the end, they exceeded that target.
But as he sat in front of a school assembly on Monday and watched the clippers fire up, he admitted his wife probably would have helped top up the total if it fell short.
Mr Boylan said “generosity and compassion” had come to the fore as his students challenged each other to raise as much as they could – and, occasionally, challenged their teacher.
During the fundraising, students paid for the privilege of having Mr Boylan, well-known as a follower of Collingwood in the AFL competition, wear Sydney Swans gear and even sing the Swans song in front of the whole grade.
Cathedral School as a whole raised almost $5000 for Project Compassion, a Caritas Australia initiative which aims to help the world’s poor.
