Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Agree with most of what David says. I’d also add that I was never “sent away” - I was given the choice of CH, or alternatively Whitgift or Trinity scholarships. Or, the very high quality local church state school, Archbishop Tenison’s. Having seen them all, I chose CH without hesitation, partly BECA...

I teach GCSE maths to students from local state schools - the kids can be bright, but the single biggest thing missing?? Aspiration! If nothing else, at least in my time, CH applauded achievement, in whatever field it was that you chose. You didn’t get bullied for being clever (at least from what I ...

Updated with further names and information.

This list last updated 25/6/19

Have had it confirmed that the trial started YESTERDAY 24th June 2019.

The jury has been sworn and the case opened to the jury.

Below is the definitive list of ex-CH staff and CH-related individuals who’ve been convicted of sexual abuse or harassment in some way or other. If you spot any errors or omissions, please do let me know asap and I’ll update the list here. 1: Peter Burr , (dob 21/10/1944), pleaded guilty to a total ...

I would agree that the approach to alcohol at CH in my time seemed to work fairly well... The generally accepted approach seemed to be that if you could hold a coherent, no-slurred conversation with a housemaster then they'd usually ignore it. But if you threw-up, were rowdy, violent, noticeably dru...

Either all staff were 100% aware of what was going on back in the day.... or, it’s possible for staff to believe everything’s fine (and now, that it’s all changed), but there still to be problems in an organisation. I’d suggest it’s extremely risky to suggest there’s 100% no problems, it’s 100% chan...

I may be naive, but I think there’s much more general awareness on the part of the kids themselves over what’s right, wrong, normal and inappropriate - along with a much stronger ethos to trust the child by default. So I’d like the think it’s be better - but who knows..... I do hope so. I suspect th...

Agree - my feelings for the place have definitely changed in the last couple of years, and it’s triggered much introspection over what happened to me and my friends in my time there. Seeing all the happy pics of Old Blues’ Day felt very dissonant- I felt like shouting “don’t you realise what was goi...

Unbelievable if he only spends 6 years inside for this, less I guess given time-served. To think he could be out-and-about again in a couple of years time is horrible.

Is this another example of covering things up for the reputation of the school (in this case Shrewsbury) - and can't be deemed to be "historical" - it was only 2016! So it's still common-place for institutions to try to hide/not reveal revelations about their staff? Seems very economical w...

I'm going to lock this topic for now - will re-open it after the trial. If you have anything to add to it for information for those attending, or any other factual public updates, please PM them to me, RichardB or J.R. and we can add to the topic whilst it's locked.

“Orientation”?

J

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