Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

And not just the pupils, but perhaps also the staff. [With the sad exception of Clive Kemp.]

I know that my best two golfing years, 1984 & 1992, were during or shortly after I was doing a lot of exercise because of sports coaching.

Just read today that although today's young people are taller and heavier they are not so muscular, in spite of all that gym equipment. There's just less regular physical exercise to build up muscle than many of you had.

Well, that’s the first time I’ve been called Stalinist. It’s about phrasing and context, your original comment sounded deliberately inflammatory. My original comment was that Karim had transformed girls sport at CH. If anyone wants to contradict this, please do. I will argue with you very strongly....

And even these days the appalling jury system means that only 1/3 of rape cases end up with a conviction - which is only a small percentage of the rape accusations that are made, which in turn are a small percentage of the rapes that take place.

I am not clear - given the NO COMMENT - why you commented in the first place.

J.R. wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:29 pm Fun is good. Abuse is a crime. Not that I am suggesting for one minute that any named person is guilty of such.

Would the site moderator care to explain his comments further?

Pretty much sums her up.

I object to the STALINIST tendencies of this site to stifle debate. It was Karim's excellence as a sports coach that enabled him to abuse. Both girls and staff were on his side as a result. Why should I be prevented from referring to that excellence in a threat about "attitudes to sport" s...

J.R. wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 7:01 pm Think your keyboard '?' is stuck Tim, or maybe you've just nodded off.

Hey Ho. Matters not.

An unworthy response from an official moderator.

I was the first person to mention the Millfield abuse - to which you refer - on this site.

J.R. wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:29 pm Fun is good. Abuse is a crime. Not that I am suggesting for one minute that any named person is guilty of such.

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JR - I was just trying to say that Jonathan "Gripper" Davies - who was a colleague of mine for a very short time at CH - took a huge amount of time to make history FUN for his pupils !

DazedandConfused wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:01 pm [ I’d have happily swapped Karim for a less talented coach who didn’t make me feel so uncomfortable as a young teenage girl.

And so would I.

He helped transform girls' sport at CH. Yes.

I think I may be repeating a story I have told on another thread but it is relevant here. As the Hertford girls' school was run down sports was a major casualty and the attitude to sport of the girls who arrived in 1985 was appalling. I remember umpiring a girls' house hockey match in the early days...