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Postby erolz66 » Tue Nov 19, 2019 5:50 pm

No 11 The Kings School for boys

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... c0d1357db9

TWO of Sydney’s most exclusive religious schools have come under fire from the child sex abuse royal commission after boys were “raped” with a homemade wooden dildo at one school while other boys were bullied and one called a “cum rag” at another. The shocking abuse at Parramatta’s The King’s School and Trinity Grammar at Summer Hill — where parents pay up to $60,000 a year for tuition and boarding — was not adequately dealt with by the schools, the royal commission said today. The commission had heard that at Trinity, a year 9 boarding student was found by the boarding house master on the floor, crying, his face covered in black boot polish and his trousers down in. He had been sexually assaulted with a large wooden dildo, dubbed “the anaconda”, that one of the boys made in a school woodwork class. The royal commission found that it was not the only time “the anaconda” was used and the headmaster Milton Cujes was “likely” told about it later that day. At King’s, the commission found that a bullying culture existed both at the school and the boarding school.
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Re: The risks to children of British public schools.

Postby erolz66 » Tue Nov 19, 2019 6:07 pm

No 12 Brisbane Grammar

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/ ... se/8273646

A prestigious Brisbane private school harboured a culture in which children making allegations of abuse were treated as liars, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has found. The commission has handed down its report into what it calls Case Study 34, examining allegations of abuse at Brisbane Grammar School in Spring Hill and St Paul's School in the northern Brisbane suburb of Bald Hills. It heard evidence that school counsellor Kevin Lynch sexually abused "a large number of students" while he was working at Brisbane Grammar between 1973 and 1988, and continued abusing student as a counsellor at St Paul's between 1989 and 1997.
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Re: The risks to children of British public schools.

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Re: The risks to children of British public schools.

Postby Pyrpolizer » Tue Nov 19, 2019 7:18 pm

erolz66 wrote:No 12 Brisbane Grammar

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/ ... se/8273646

A prestigious Brisbane private school harboured a culture in which children making allegations of abuse were treated as liars, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has found. The commission has handed down its report into what it calls Case Study 34, examining allegations of abuse at Brisbane Grammar School in Spring Hill and St Paul's School in the northern Brisbane suburb of Bald Hills. It heard evidence that school counsellor Kevin Lynch sexually abused "a large number of students" while he was working at Brisbane Grammar between 1973 and 1988, and continued abusing student as a counsellor at St Paul's between 1989 and 1997.


For boys only!!
What an anachronism!

Erolz I think while doing your research, it's important to also search whether the sexual abuses were on day or on boarding students or else you won't find the root of the problem.I believe the root of the problem it's the boarding, but I have no data to prove it.
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Re: The risks to children of British public schools.

Postby erolz66 » Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:45 pm

Pyrpolizer wrote:
erolz66 wrote:No 12 Brisbane Grammar

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/ ... se/8273646

A prestigious Brisbane private school harboured a culture in which children making allegations of abuse were treated as liars, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has found. The commission has handed down its report into what it calls Case Study 34, examining allegations of abuse at Brisbane Grammar School in Spring Hill and St Paul's School in the northern Brisbane suburb of Bald Hills. It heard evidence that school counsellor Kevin Lynch sexually abused "a large number of students" while he was working at Brisbane Grammar between 1973 and 1988, and continued abusing student as a counsellor at St Paul's between 1989 and 1997.


For boys only!!
What an anachronism!

Erolz I think while doing your research, it's important to also search whether the sexual abuses were on day or on boarding students or else you won't find the root of the problem.I believe the root of the problem it's the boarding, but I have no data to prove it.


It is rarely the case of all one or the other. These kinds of abusers take all opportunities and exploit the vulnerable where ever they can find them. Boarding creates more opportunities but there are and will always be vulnerable day boys. 'Bush Trips' with camping with both day students and boarders seems to be quite a theme. There is also the whole nepotistic aspect as well with abusers moving from one public school to another. Getting a teaching post in such schools works in very similar ways to get a place for a child. Having the right 'back ground' , having gone to a public school yourself, these will always increase your chances of employment in such schools. I would be interested in a study that looks at the backgrounds of these abusers. How many of them themselves were abused by predatory masters during their time at public schools as students ? In any case for me I think this is more than just 'boarding' alone. These schools operate on an ethos and structure of hierarchy, of power, of dominance of the 'strong' over the 'weak'. That is what they are designed to 'teach'.
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Postby erolz66 » Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:56 pm

Anyway I had no intention of talking about Australian schools, of which I knew nothing until Paphitis forced me to start looking at them. Time to get back to the original topic of 'British Public Schools'

https://www.itv.com/news/2018-02-18/sho ... cumentary/

Shocking scale of sexual abuse at UK boarding schools revealed by ITV documentary. In the Exposure programme to be broadcast on Monday, journalist and author Alex Renton - who was sexually abused as an eight-year-old by his teacher at one of the country’s top boarding schools - investigates the private schools that appeared willing to disregard children’s safety, with some failing to take action against predatory paedophiles who groomed and assaulted young boarders repeatedly - sometimes getting away with it for decades.


No doubt the likes of Londonrake will dismiss anything and everything exposed by this documentary investigation, on the basis that it just a 'grudge' from one indivdual who had bad experiences at public sachool himself and is seeking revenge on all such schools regardless of any guilt or culpability or not.
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Postby erolz66 » Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:59 pm

https://newrepublic.com/article/151232/ ... ol-problem

When socially privileged children are separated from their families at a tender age, some develop what psychotherapists have called “Boarding School Syndrome”: “a defensive and protective encapsulation of the self,” in which they learn to hide emotion, fake maturity, and assert dominance over anyone weaker. They develop loyalty to their institutional tribe and suspicion of outsiders; they become bullies devoted to winning above all. If these traits sound familiar, it may be because the men who sent Britain careening into the catastrophe of Brexit—David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage—are all products of elite boarding schools, notorious symbols of social and economic inequality. These institutions—Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Westminster and their ilk—may be quintessentially English, but, as they have become the ultimate educational status symbol for the global super-rich, their influence today extends across the world.
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Postby erolz66 » Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:02 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... nal-memoir

Abuse in Britain's boarding schools: why I decided to confront my demons. For generations of boys, sexual abuse was part of the everyday cruelty of boarding school. In this painfully honest report, writer Alex Renton confronts the demons of his past at Ashdown House, where some of Britain's most powerful men were also educated – and reveals the scale of the outrage about to engulf the private education system.

But I do know that after the half-term break that first autumn we came back to a terrifying dressing-down, delivered under those low beams in the headmaster's study. One of us new boys – I still don't know who – had complained about the regime in Dormitory V to his parents. This was the cardinal sin. What happened in school stayed in school. Billy punished us all. We didn't tell tales again.
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Re: The risks to children of British public schools.

Postby erolz66 » Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:09 pm

Oh the irony - whilst researching the google add link at top of search page comes up with

https://www.dickinsonboardingschools.com/

Find the right British boarding school for your child. British schools have a reputation for bringing out the best in each individual student, enabling them to achieve their full potential, whilst finding their own way in life.


complete with it's own 'brexit' section too.
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Re: The risks to children of British public schools.

Postby erolz66 » Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:11 pm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stiff-Upper-Li ... 1474600549

This is the story of generations of parents, Britain's richest and grandest, who believed that being miserable at school was necessary to make a good and successful citizen. Childish suffering was a price they accepted for the preservation of their class, and their entitlement. The children who were moulded by this misery and abuse went on - as they still do - to run Britain's public institutions and private companies.
Confronting the truth of his own schooldays and the crimes he witnessed, Alex Renton has revealed a much bigger story. It is of a profound malaise in the British elite, shown up by tolerance of the abuse of its own children that amounts to collusion. This culture and its traditions, and the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that underpin them, are key to any explanation of the scandals over sexual abuse, violence and cover-up in child care institutions that are now shocking the nation.
As Renton shows, complicity in this is the bleak secret at the heart of today's British elite.


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