Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Like rockfreak, I too am amazed by the fact that bullying, which was declining in his time, and declining still faster in mine (we overlapped but he was four years my senior) seems to have got worse in the 1970s and 1980s. For heaven's sake. Bullying isn't like smallpox. It doesn't decline as medic...

OK - so whilst we work out how much of a **** Sillett was, can Poulton be binned from CHOBA? Actions speak louder...

Is the behaviour of Sillett a matter of public record? If so, he should also be removed from CHOBA.

wagenman wrote: ↑Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:44 am Do you know if Robinson married twice? This thread references an Elspeth Robinson but i seem to recall his wife had a different name.

Catherine Hartnett IIRC.

rockfreak wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:34 pm Assuming of course that the thin-skinned and paranoid Jewish lobby don't nail him first. And I say that as a Tottenham fan.

Is this anti Semitic or just crass? It’s not likely that you know, as Labour policy on the topic seems a bit fuzzy...

Feel free to tell me I am wrong. Allow me. You’re wrong. Borderline hysterical in the above post. You’ve done good on this site but considering your background should know better. Tim’s offering a valuable perspective in a measured way. I wouldn’t want him to feel hounded from this site again by su...

ok - in that evidence of the totally separate management of the 2 organisations i can see why ex leaders (some of whom left the school under a cloud) could still end up on a scout camp during the holidays and outside the school grounds without any control or input from the school As foureyes states...

DazedandConfused wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 7:05 pm

RusticationPhil wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:56 pm
Legal discalimer: I personally take all and full legal responsibility for naming the perpetrater here. If Mr McCall wants to sue me, I say lets have it, bring it ON!

Is anyone else thinking of the lyrics of the Housey Rap here?

Yup.

“Dobbie and Crud: enough said”

Chief was a star. So was the RE Sgt Maj who ran the Army section. The odd one out was Rocker Rae who sported spray on RAF Service Dress and couldn’t quite carry off his elevated rank. Happy days. I loved the RN section. I always wanted to be on the shooting team as they had really rather fetching lo...

CodFlabAndMuck wrote: ↑Sat Aug 25, 2018 8:26 pm I meant JAH otherwise I'LL be mugged!

I got that.

The cane had definitely gone, but Shippen for one still enjoyed a good slippering in the immediate post-merger years - though I might add that this was in his capacity as a junior housemaster rather than as Scoutmaster, lest I muddy the water regarding the barge trips This needs correcting. Derek B...

jhopgood wrote: ↑Tue Aug 21, 2018 8:30 pm Just for my education, is there a difference between expelled and excluded?

In my day, if you refused to be excluded, you were expelled. Excluded sound better. Withdrawn even more so...

CodFlabAndMuck wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 12:31 pm...no mention of school governance

I’m increasingly of the view that it had very little. It had pomp, and politics - and very, very stupid people, who thought that was enough.

Scazza wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 12:22 pm Their response? Nothing (yet... but we're past their 3 week service agreement for responding.)

CH has probably lit up their switchboard like a Christmas Tree.

Have a read of these reports (NB they are a distressing read, right from the start). CH deserves its very own version I'm afraid. https://www.iicsa.org.uk/news/inquiry-publishes-report-ampleforth-and-downside This. I want this. An independent enquiry into the School to understand and publicly ident...