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- Thu Sep 27, 2018 4:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Corporal Punishment by CH Teaching staff
- Replies: 104
- Views: 40202
Re: Corporal Punishment by CH Teaching staff
So far nobody seems to have dragged up McNutt, so I shall. His technique, as recorded in Norman Longmate's 'A Shaping Season', involved putting the target in a particular crouch on a chair so as to maximise the pain and then retreating into his study cupboard so as to get a good run-up to maximise t...
- Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:26 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: All this is incredibly sad
- Replies: 163
- Views: 69882
Re: All this is incredibly sad
I think schools still haven't got the message. The perpetrators of what (as reported) were clearly criminal assaults at Millfield appear to have been merely 'suspended' and there has been no report that Millfield has involved the police. Who I would wish would take the hint and intervene, but I doub...
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 7:13 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Why a teacher DOES NOT have to report abuse
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18204
Re: Why a teacher DOES NOT have to report abuse
1. My understanding is that the original offence was 'misprision of felony' and when the term 'felony' was abolished by Callaghan(?) the baby misprision went down the plug hole with the felony bath water. 2. It is surely sophistry to suggest that if teachers had no legal duty to 'snitch' (a word who...
- Fri Aug 31, 2018 4:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH and the Armed Services
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18006
Re: CH and the Armed Services
The immediate recent CHOBA newsletter records the decease of Paul Madge, Prep B & Lamb B 1946-1953. London Gazette Supplement of 20 August 1968 records his award of a Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct in the Air, relating to an incident on '9th' (actually 8th) April of that year, when Fleet...
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:28 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Did anyone know?
- Replies: 159
- Views: 95466
Re: Did anyone know?
Prep B 1946-7, Col B 1947-54, I have no memory of being caned, nor of Pink being in any way odd, although I do remember an ex-naval 2nd housemaster in Col B called David Farrar gymshoeing two entire rugger teams after a match he was refereeing descended into chaos because he couldn't keep discipline...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:06 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12822
Re: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
Congratters indeed, and if anyone didn't get what they needed, hang in there. Lat year my grandson got very good A levels but they just were not enough for an immediate medical place. However, some aspirants clearly had applications in at more than one med school. At the last minute my grandson was ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:16 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12822
Re: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
In my day if you failed Latin O level that totally ruled out Oxbridge. ... For Oxbridge, O level Latin or Greek was compulsory. GCEs came in 1952 but the first year there was a levelling-down Labour rule that they could not be taken until one was 16, and I wasn't. Flecker had replaced Latin with Gr...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:59 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Roger Martin
- Replies: 199
- Views: 76961
Re: Roger Martin
I suspect that some of the victims have put as much distance between them and CH as possible and so will not be reached from any mailing list CH or CHOBA has. Plus some will see the incredible ordeal of being questioned, probably aggressively, in court, as just too much.
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:51 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Expelled
- Replies: 159
- Views: 47145
Re: Expelled
As prompted on another thread, I've just re-read this one to which I find that I contributed in 2010. A boy was expelled in the early fifties for stealing booze from the Common Room. As it happens his father was the incumbent of the church used by my mother, who told me that he had put it about that...
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 3:25 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Roger Martin
- Replies: 199
- Views: 76961
- Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:35 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Ampleforth and Downside
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6574
- Sat Aug 11, 2018 5:11 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: CH and flu
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23045
Re: CH and flu
I remember a condition of going to CH was that one had to have been vaccinated against smallpox.
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 2:22 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: It's time for Sillett, Cairncross and Poulton to comment.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 28549
Re: It's time for Sillett, Cairncross and Poulton to comment.
Perhaps the lawyers for these three have counselled them to keep quiet?
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 2:19 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Karim's sentence hearing
- Replies: 110
- Views: 31397
Re: Karim's sentence hearing
Making the first sentences concurrent seems to me to be wrong and shows insufficient respect for those victims, but I suppose there are legal reasons for this? In my view Karim should atone for each victim in turn (and with a longer stretch for each). Out in five (or a bit less) and back to being th...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Did monitors have any real use?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10871
Re: Did monitors have any real use?
I swobbed for the Col B House Captain, Herbert Winter, 1947-8. It w s always clear that swobbing was voluntary and certainly did not include illegal missions or peremptory ones - the duties were clear, bed, shoes and study fire as I remember. I met my own swob at an OB Day years later and he seemed ...