Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

shy

I have done quite a lot of research or poked my nose into the school admssions policy. Much of it is anecdotal but the information below is from the internet. In summary , I think that certainly at Hertford before 1970 admission by need was not what it is today. Most puplis admtted were very able an...

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bene

Sounds like cr@p to me

Kimchi , I think resorting to rudeness is your forte. Your responses to Alice and Mdget were nothing short of threatening. If ,however ,you want to intimidate people on this forum you will have to try harder. On the other hand, if you have something worthwhile to say I suggest a lucid and cogent arg...

Thank you Alice! You can see it without being a member and what a jolly little read it is too. The peasants are revolting.. ! Well ,I suppose that's what the young folk should be doing -protesting. Of course as I am almost officially old I only went to Grennham Common and moaned about a silly old bo...

Well, I think we can safely accept that Mr Franklin's wife is not the author of Kimchi's novel debut on the forum. I guess we also might think it is a pupil who has lost a friend from the school and feels angry and upset. Maybe they feel it was unjust and need a place to kick off about it. Honesty i...

Well , Jo is ever the voice of reason on many threads on this forum and can sense when it might be about to go pear shaped( and this not just because she as in 5's when I was there) but I believe that some of the older members of the forum don't quite understand how much teaching has moved on and im...

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Gordon

That's what was ondering about . When you say 'fit the bill' how do you interpret that?

Brian

Jo is right. Miss Morrison was no teacher though she my well have been witty. I remember one memorably dull sequence of lessons which involved the alleged teaching of a Jane Austen Novel. So memorable that I have forgotten which one. She read the entire novel to us which we dutifully followed armed ...