Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Pe.A wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 1:07 am What exactly counts as concrete evidence?

Some kind of report on what safeguarding changes there have been with reference to studies that show these changes have a positive effect, or an independent study and report on the changes, something along those lines.

On the first occasion of quoting your words, TMF, I gave no response. I will now explain my action: I was simply stunned by the depth of your cynicism, especially in your concluding paragraph. I'm stunned by the naivety and inability of former staff to comprehend the depth of the problem despite al...

Great, well I'd love to see some concrete evidence of that. We need more than just assurances, the school has committed gross errors. Poulton, Cairncross and Sillett should pay a price for letting this happen. If there's even one case of abuse discovered in more recent years the school should be clo...

I just don't feel all that confident that boarding schools and CH in particular have changed sufficiently to prevent this stuff from going on. I feel that in the 90s when I was there people would have said the same thing, "we have the children's act and enlightened attitudes now". Might be...

Says you have to pay for me.

Can anyone who can see it paste the relevant section?

No Grecians' club? How sad. That was a refreshing escape from the regimented life.

Normally I'd rant about neo-victorian puritanism but given the prominent role of alcohol in the 70s-90s child molesting epidemic, I'd reluctantly say maybe it was necessary.

...received wisdom and non sequiturs... I think I can stop there. There's nothing useful to be achieved by taking this any further. Kruschev was just a manager of a different form of capitalism. The economic calculation argument is fundamentally flawed because it's very easy to demonstrate that in ...

You cannot plan an economy without destroying the very nature of it, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises pointed this out by 1922. You either have prices, or randomness and chaos. There's nothing else to be said. This is just Thatcherite dogma. The famines you mention are a result of civil war or d...

That's historically largely wrong about the relation between fascists and socialists and between socialists and the state, but also off topic so I won't go into the details. Also free markets for food in times of scarcity just lead to starvation, speculation and hoarding. The free market is not a ra...

There is likely much that has been reported that cannot result in arrests as occurred before 2003 and therefore deemed consensual. It would still be of urgent interest to current and former pupils, and prospective and current parents, to document every unethical student-teacher relationship that ha...

I'm pretty sure the term "grooming" was in use in the 90s. Also the attitudes of the time were pretty much the same as now regarding child abuse. I'm hard pressed to think of any parent I've met who'd dismiss the words of their children to protect someone who was abusing them. I'm also har...

Very little press coverage this time around. I was hoping that the press would name the teacher the victim confided in. I’m interested to know whether it’s a familiar name from previous trials. Several forum posters attended so we should be able to find that out pretty soon. When would be the earli...

I swear there was also chapel on friday mornings in the mid 90s, so 2 or 3 times a week usually

It would be really good if someone could go... I would take the day off to attend but I'm 5000 miles away!

I also love how much power people think that the masons have and the conspiracies that they are involved in. There's a lot of insane conspiracy theories out there, but it is true that Masonic lodges have been involved in various plots in the last 3 centuries. Two relatively recent ones that are hea...