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Was Robinson a woodwork/metalwork teacher who joined in the mid 80s?


Yes, widely regarded as being thick as two short planks due to both the subject he taught and his northern origins. With hindsight, he was probably a pretty reasonable chap.

Mrs Robinson (maiden name forgotten) was the ...

And subsequently housemaster of Maine A.

As far as I can recall his given name is Richard. Ernie’s a nickname.

RusticationPhil wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:56 pm 'the incident with Mr McCall'

McCall got booted for luring boys up to his flat in 93? He'd been doing that for at least a decade prior and nobody seemed to bat an eyelid. I wonder what changed....

I dont understand what you mean at all. I just stated that Gunning had no control over the house. I don't think anyone is going to want to take me to court over that? Whats more if they did, I would have no problem justifying my statement in court. For example, smoking and drinking occurred openly ...

Some of the learned attitudes were unnecessarily harsh. We even sat in seniority order for meals - not just clumping year groups together but sitting in age order (and later seniority order based on "black aprons"). A trivial point but indicative of the supremacy of hierarchy in the mind of DR ...

Just before the barn fire (which I didn't know about) there was a big drugs story in the papers about CH. Maybe '88 or '89. I think maybe 6-7 were expelled instantly for smoking pot..... despite alcohol being widely tolerated and far more deadly for 14-15yr olds.

No idea how it got in the papers ...

If a victim is so severely damaged by the abuse that they cannot work, why shouldn't they be compensated for loss of earnings?

The damage very often scars for life.


i didnt say they shouldnt i specifically wrote i agreed with you re loss of earnings

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"as for loss of earning yes agree ...

Freemasons? Seems it all went a bit deeper than that https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... -for-abuse

DazedandConfused wrote: Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:14 pm No, she stayed on until her Grecians, she was in my boarding house. Unless there was more than one!

I knew of one in 87'ish. Same one?

bakunin wrote: Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:27 pm Yes, I meant Monty. He mainly taught IT with maths as his secondary subject, I thought.

His role may have evolved into that but when i was there he was definitely a maths teacher. IT being more of a a hobby rather than a subject. I think i maybe had one IT lesson.

Dobbie, McCall, Husband and Wignall all in a row @ 40 s in this video. Uncanny.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sezmz_Iaw2Y&app=desktop

bakunin wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:36 pm don't know why philosophy is such a low priority in England compared to e.g. France. I think it should be a core subject)

It's because philosophy requires thinking rather than didactic learning.

marty wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:09 pm Not commenting. Just FYI.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/vi ... 1002787338

I’d recognise that walk anywhere.

That said, I also think there was a type of teacher who had zero interest in a social life, Omera, Shippen and Sutcliffe as examples and would imagine CH suited them in this regard.


If you mean Roger Sutcliffe I'm not sure he fits into that category. He had 2 separate stints at the school ...