Independent Schools Inspectorate 2003 report

[Richard Ruck]

Well, I have to admit that I was a bit bored recently, so I thought I'd take a look at the latest report pertaining to C.H.

(I.S.I. site here http://www.isinspect.org.uk/frreports.htm ).

All in all, it shows C.H. in a pretty good light.

I did notice one thing, though. The report mentioned that there had been 5 permanent and 53 temporary exclusions during the 12 months prior to the report.

Seems rather a lot - what was everyone up to? Was it a case of mass rule-breaking, or were those rules just being vigorously enforced?

I seem to remember that rustications / suspensions used to be quite rare events - I think the headmaster mostly preferred to administer a good thrashing.

Perhaps this is one result of the outlawing of corporal punishment - one level of sanctions has been removed, resulting in greater use of the train ticket home.

[Great Plum]

I think there was some smoking of the wacky baccy at the time and a large number were caught...

[Richard Ruck]

I think there was some smoking of the wacky baccy at the time and a large number were caught...

Well, I suppose the culprits were hardly going to leg it over Big Side to escape.....

[ben ashton]

...mainly because they were stoned in their rooms in Mid A