Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Hopefully the media will now correctly describe Dobbie as Chaplain to properly identify the magnitude of the abuse of trust that he committed.

marty wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:04 pm Coincidence?
https://www.jobstoday.co.uk/job/2358586 ... a-officer/

Pay peanuts...

Very many thanks for these latest posts. In 1868 the School Inquiry Commissioners adjudged CH to be "without parallel... sui generis". Sir William Hamilton Fyfe famously adjudged CH to be "the best school in the world" some 90 years ago. With the move to Horsham from Greyfriars ...

.... and I wasn't going to comment on ' Freaky 's' outburst above. However, as stated before, I voted for Brexit and therefore was part of the majority. I think thats called DEMOCRACY ? You’re in the minority now. Evidence please. For proof you need a new vote and because the electorate has chosen ...

.... and I wasn't going to comment on ' Freaky 's' outburst above. However, as stated before, I voted for Brexit and therefore was part of the majority. I think thats called DEMOCRACY ? My bold. Correct use of the past tense. You’re in the minority now. The referendum should re-run and we should co...

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There will be a lot to debate once the trial is over. Damn right. I can almost phrase the platitudinous email that will come from the school; lessons learned, never again, etc... We'll be asked to move on. I wish the Head and the School well. But I don't want to move on - I want a serious introspec...

jhopgood wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 10:57 am I feel sure that in the past, especially in the so called "lower classes", prejudices were not as rampant as they now seem to be.

You've used the 'c' word. Someone will be along shortly to tell you how wrong you are, but also how preposterous it is that you are wrong...

IIRC by the time I left, Debbie was senior chaplain. I think it was Porteous, Atkinson and Dobbie when I joined and Dobbie and Banyard when I left. I would hope that the chaplaincy issue isn’t material to the matter of establishing guilt, but is material should guilt be proven, and a sentence is bei...

There have been a couple of occasions in the past when I've deleted my own stuff but usually when I've put something up after two or three glasses of wine and then thought: "Um, I'm not sure that was a good idea." Mind you, considering some of the rambling, incoherent old cobblers that tu...

I knew quite a lot of the back story, but seeing the allegations in black and white is pretty shocking.

The cool kids don’t join facebook and my generation is slowly drifting away from it too. Even instagram is levelling off.

Corporal punishment may have been par for the course at that time but I agree with Michael Scuffil that some housemasters seemed to take a vicarious pleasure in laying it on while others hardly beat at all. I date from an age when many people in authority seemed to subscribe to the Christian doctri...

rockfreak wrote: ↑Fri Apr 20, 2018 8:39 pm...and unwordly doziness from some of the pupils.

Is that what you think of the victims of Karim?