Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

jtaylor wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 1:41 pm Just seen this published on the CHOBA site:-

https://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/old ... july-2019/

I guess it’s tough to get this all 100% right, but sounds fair enough in terms of making contacting after each trial, and only then through the police if the victim wants it. Also not assuming what support each person wants or needs.

Julian

sejintenej wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:11 pm To me that looked like the CH site so I asked them why OBs are blocked from reading the statement

sejintenej wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:11 pm To me that looked like the CH site so I asked them why OBs are blocked from reading the statement

TMF wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:05 pm I think that the letter is encouraging.

Here are the things that worry me:

I believe that Simon Reid was a teacher at the school in the 1990s - and as others have noted - there was knowledge of things going on among the staff in the school in the 1990s.

We also know that there must have been knowledge among the governors - e.g. one governor (as a pupil) had been lured into a teacher's car - and that teacher suddenly departed thereafter. So that particular governor must have had a sense of a cover up culture until rather recently.

I also suspect that the '100' number is a lower bound - the essence of that estimate is that about 25% of victims of convicted teachers have come forward. There are 25 victims that have come forward so far - so there are likely 100 victims in total. However, there are many additional teachers ('there were others') who departed suddenly. These teachers might have left for personal reasons, perhaps they just assaulted someone physically and not sexually (as has been described recently, and left discretely), or perhaps 'they had something of the night about them'. Some offenders may no longer be around e.g. Pink, Buck, Hayden(?), etc.

It seems to me that the percentage of abusers among the staff was significant. In the 1970s I was taught by Webb and Husband - and I was in houses with two sudden departure teachers. I suspect that the school maintained the population distribution and cover up policy for many years. Many people accept that baseline, 'the past is another country' etc.

I do not think that fraudulent use of help from the school for treatment would be a significant problem. A small amount of credential checking on the submitted bills would be easy to do (like the old blue who described sending his dental bills to the school for dental trauma suffered at the hand of Dickie Dawe). This would be the very least that the school should do - and fuller compensation be handled on a case by case basis.

I don't mean to start a debate on numbers - or evolving societal patterns - or bill checking - I just thought I would mention my perspective. The letter to me looks like a step in a positive direction.

LHA wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:30 pm
Who suddenly departed in your time? Not familiar with the story re dental bills, which sounds concerning.

Please share as much as possible.

Avon wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:10 pm then are there some cases to answer in terms of bullying?

TMF wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:54 am

There are other posts indicating these types of incident - where apparently there were not sudden departures. E.g. here is a post from a girl who talks about 'an inappropriate' relationship that she had with a teacher (this post was in 2011):
'In my last couple of years, I had an inappropriate relationship with a male teacher. At the time, I believed we were equals. As an adult, I am appalled.'

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3856&p=118418#p118418

This site contains a fair amount of output from people trying to understand some of the incidents and people that they encountered as children...