It just WASN'T Rugby !!!!

[J.R.]

I meant to post this last week, but footy commitments and the good weather meant it slipped my mind.

Did any of you see the press report last week concerning two 6th. Form students at Rugby School ?

Apparently, they were caught after a 6th. form club party, in flagrante delicto on the ACTUAL pitch which was the birth place of the game which took it's name from the school. 11 out of 10 for inspiration, I say !

It seems that a master, taking a short cut home, tripped over them as they gave vent to their youthful passion.

Both students were immediately sent home, even though they were both 17, and told they could only return to school to sit their final exams.

Personally, I'd have presented them with a medal and wished them the best of luck.

Some school-masters are real spoil-SPORTS !

[englishangel]

Hear-hear

[DavebytheSea]

I meant to post this last week, but footy commitments and the good weather meant it slipped my mind.

Did any of you see the press report last week concerning two 6th. Form students at Rugby School ?

Apparently, they were caught after a 6th. form club party, in flagrante delicto on the ACTUAL pitch which was the birth place of the game which took it's name from the school. 11 out of 10 for inspiration, I say !

It seems that a master, taking a short cut home, tripped over them as they gave vent to their youthful passion.

Both students were immediately sent home, even though they were both 17, and told they could only return to school to sit their final exams.

Personally, I'd have presented them with a medal and wished them the best of luck.

Some school-masters are real spoil-SPORTS !

Was the problem that they were playing footie on THE Rugby pitch?

[englishangel]

only horizontally

[DavebytheSea]

only horizontally

Alas! Only too common these days - my younger son says it is called diving. Hence the master's anger at tripping over them in the gloom.

Of course, he should have just kicked any balls in play into touch and that would have been an end of the affair.

[J.R.]

Presumably, if they'd been caught knocking seven bales of sh1t out of each other, they would have received counselling, given a warm cup of cocoa and told to be good pupils. That seems to be schools general way of treating bullying these days.

What ever happened to the old adage, 'Make Love, Not War !!'

[Great Plum]

I assume as well, that they were both over the age of consent being in the lower sixth...

[J.R.]

I assume as well, that they were both over the age of consent being in the lower sixth...

Matt:

If you read my original post fully, you will see that the press reported both their ages as 17 !

As recent surveys seem to prove that a fair percentage of state school girls 'start' at 14...................................

[englishangel]

MOST don't. My daughter is very miffed at that comment. She is at a Secondary Mod as was her brother before her and there has not been 1 pregnancy all the time they have been there. (10 years in total). Nor are condoms and/or the morning after pill given out.

I wouldn't dare go to the Matron myself she scares the sh1t out of me.

[J.R.]

MOST don't. My daughter is very miffed at that comment. She is at a Secondary Mod as was her brother before her and there has not been 1 pregnancy all the time they have been there. (10 years in total). Nor are condoms and/or the morning after pill given out.

I wouldn't dare go to the Matron myself she scares the sh1t out of me.

I agree with what you're saying Mary, and I'm pleased to hear your daughters comments.

Eldest Grand-Daughter, (16), is leaving school this summer and going straight to college to start a course towards a degree in child phsycology, (sp?). We talk together VERY openly, as familys, should, and she showed me some course work statistics, that to be honest, frightened me concerning 14 year old girls attitute to sex. Thankfully, Zara, (Grand-Daughter), does NOT fall into that category !

[blondie95]

after i left CH there were a few suspensions in grecians houses due to people being in the wrong rooms at wrong times etc!

[J.R.]

after i left CH there were a few suspensions in grecians houses due to people being in the wrong rooms at wrong times etc!

I seem to have started another interesting debate !

Consenting adults ????????????

Acts of violence and war ??????????

I know which side of the coin I fall on !!

[Mrs C.]

The rather more serious point everyone is missing (or trying to ignore!) is that it was probably "against school rules".
Yes, perhaps rules are made to be broken, but what else is the school supposed to do if there has been an obvious breach of rules?

Since the Grecians houses began there have been several suspensions, one or two this year so far too, as Amy rightly says, and even 2 expulsions of which I`m aware. . The school rules are quite clear about this - likewise alcohol/drug abuse.

I don`t think there is any rule about listening to rock`n`roll though!

[blondie95]

Thanks Mrs C.
The school trusted us with the Grecians houses and I think its only fair to respect that. We were allowed in each others room but at certain times of day and lets be honest why on earth middle of a Sunday afternoon would you have your door locked and not want to answer it!!!!
I'm not saying I was holier than thou but I knew the trouble it would get us in and its not worth it that close to your exams

Also the school is acting as surrogate parents and they are responsible for a large number of children who will come from homes with varying thoughts on certain things so the school has to satisfy them all by taking a stringent line!

[cj]

I don't think a mixed, boarding educational establishment for 11 to 18 yr-olds could take any other line on this. The rules one chooses to apply while your children are living under your own roof are a different matter altogether. If CH was a 6th form boarding 'college' though, would it be valid to change the rules then?