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- Sun Jul 08, 2018 9:34 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: A post on behalf of one of the Dobbie/Husband victims
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12216
Re: A post on behalf of one of the Dobbie/Husband victims
Has any of this stuff appeared in the national press?
- Sat Jul 07, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: The trial of Husband and Dobbie
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10549
Re: The trial of Husband and Dobbie
The prison food can't be any worse than at CH.
- Sat Jul 07, 2018 10:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: REV PULLIN & THE OLD BLUE
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7310
Re: REV PULLIN & THE OLD BLUE
I had a vague idea that "Windy" as he was known was with Maine A for a while but I could be wrong about that. I've known one or two people over the years who have converted to Catholicism because of the lure of the bells and smells and general razzmatazz. I suppose it's understandable when...
- Sat Jul 07, 2018 2:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Deputy Head Writes...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8029
Re: The Deputy Head Writes...
Certainly by NTF.
- Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:28 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Should the forum be behind a registration wall?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13551
Re: Should the forum be behind a registration wall?
Just recently on another thread someone posted claiming that this sort of abuse goes on just as much at day schools. Really? I can only speak from my own experience but when my three daughters were at their local day schools (variously comprehensive and grammar) over a span of about twelve years the...
- Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:06 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Here we go again
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1831
Re: Here we go again
No-one's been prosecuted yet for Spoony's erotic leg massage by the swimming pool.
- Sun Jul 01, 2018 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: PETITION: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 34887
Re: PETITION: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?
Replying to Iguana's post: if the full fee payers can afford thirty one grand to send their kids to CH then they can afford to pay a lot more tax to help fund a proper one-tier state system like they have in other developed European countries. Anything else is outdated (by about a century) Victorian...
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Underachieving at CH
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6027
Re: Underachieving at CH
I have been posting on Nick Duffell's sites ever since I read his books 'The Making of Them' and 'Wounded Leaders'. I sent him emails about my experiences at Christ's Hospital and in later life and he asked if I would put these up on his sites. His late co-worker Rob Bland happened to be at CH in th...
- Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Underachieving at CH
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6027
Re: Underachieving at CH
Janey Jam-Jar is a wonderful moniker. How did she come by it? Everyone should be required to post and explain how they dreamed up their moniker.
- Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Deputy Head Writes...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8029
Re: The Deputy Head Writes...
I haven't always found myself in agreement with Sejintenej but I do agree that the vague and modern-day jargon-esque language used is what you might expect from a politician asked by a newspaper for a quote. Or even from a Deputy Headmistress asked to justify an educational system that only seven pe...
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:36 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Science teaching in the 50's
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20686
Re: Science teaching in the 50's
Drinking is a thoroughly worthwhile academic discipline and there should be a PhD in it.
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Underachieving at CH
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6027
Underachieving at CH
The minute my mother knew that I was going to CH she was on the phone to everyone she knew telling them the good news. It was the chance of a lifetime. Especially in 1952. To make matters worse my sponsor was an old boy of the school and a senior governor. The weight of expectation was on my shoulde...
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:48 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 624
- Views: 236831
Re: Politics
Steve Hilton gets a good slagging off from Nick Cohen in this Sunday's Observer. Hilto now appears to have completed a journey from left to right. Starting off by claiming to endorse old-fashioned one-nation conservatism in the Tory party he is now a regular on Murdoch's Fox News, hosting all sorts ...
- Mon Jun 25, 2018 8:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 624
- Views: 236831
Re: Politics
I'm just picking myself up off the floor. Avon and I are on the same side of the fence for once. I know that opinion polls aren't totally reliable but the last four have put Remain in the ascendancy by anything from two to six points. Foureyes's language skills and parental ancestry are all very wel...
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 624
- Views: 236831
Re: Politics
Went on the Anti-Brexit march in London today. About 100,000 there I reckon. Most of the banners bigging up the fact hat we'd been lied to and only another referendum nearer to Brexit will be the answer. Right on cue Airbus and BMW put their heads above the parapet and voiced their concerns. How wil...