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the website link [to SES]?is not accessible via the Junior Schools section of the site, only the Senior Schools. As the Junior Schools are the primary intake point, this is the point where the SES needs to be most transparent. I'm totally disgusted. Surely this is illegal. mm, I hope you won?t take...

Well though I was told not to discuss the initiation, I personally found it a physically painful experience - like having something drilling down into my skull from the top of my head... It was definately physically painful and it made me lean forward - something which Mr White seemed alarmed about...

There's no doubt in my mind that the hitting of girl's in St James was sexual abuse. If a girl was to be hit she was told to come to the front of the class pull her knickers down, lift her dress up and bend over. The teacher then hit her with her bare hand. I was never punished in this way but it h...

SES-survivor wrote:I never did get a satisfactory explaination for my initiation experience from Mr White

care to elaborate? what about your initiation were you wanting explained?

James wrote:their entire "philosophy" is built around is that of "Adwita" or "we are all the same".

In what way are we all the same?

3 weeks is WAAAAY too late to realize something you should know before you register...and which would be so simple for the School to communicate if it wanted to --, that they are "coming from a spiritual basis and not an academic one."

Ross,
you think Vasudevanada is working the ?homeless, destitute look?? Seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants whose heads are at a lower level, and shaded with an ornate parasol someone else is holding up?

[the children?s schools] teachers are given this example [coercion] by their SES tutors; The crucial difference: adults are free to leave the SES but children at St James are [not] This goes right to the heart of the matter. Whether the SES calls itself a religion or not, parents are legally within...

it should be made clear that the TOR for the inquiry did not allow...scope to include an assessment of the relationship to the SES. Whilst it was touched upon as part of the history and framework of St James it was not identified as DIRECTLY relevant to the inquiry into discipline policy... So the ...

Also, two other things ? there is some Hindu tradition which frowns on crossing the ocean ? I?m not at all well-informed about this but something about how an orthodox Hindu can walk far & wide, and can cross river-boundaries, but should never cross an ocean. Some interpret this prohibition as a...

Would be pretty surprised if Vasudevananda Saraswati visited any of the SES or children's schools; he's got enough to do with the succession dispute over his own leadership. There are three different claimants to the Jytoirmath (northern) lineage, and although Vasudevananda is recognized as the legi...

Mrs. Does, the former co-headteacher. At one point Eric wanted to change roles and wanted to have her appointed as sole headteacher, but that got blocked by SES London due to certain ideas about the role of women Ha. So if the SES "really has changed" then Mrs. Laura Hyde, under whose administratio...

P&P Inquiry Action Group wrote:We have been extremely busy in the week following the inquiry report. We are in the process of posting new pages to our website including the ?about us? and ?news/updates? pages.

Who's "we?"

Ms. Betts, although you have posted the correct email address for contacting you under a different thread, you have not yet used the edit button to include the working address within your original post. Over time your correction will be separated from the post containing the dead address. In the int...

[John] Jepsen was a middle manager in HR there [IBM] great?an old-timey SES man in human resources?just the thing for tracking women into ?assistant? jobs and away from decision-making positions. Was Mr. Jepsen employed by IBM in Sydney or in Melbourne? Do you know what years? Erikdr, which Shankar...