Anita,
Thank you so much for your post! I respect your courage and compassion.
Tom
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- Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:57 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
- Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:06 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
- Tue Mar 02, 2004 11:04 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
REPLY TO RECENT POSTS
I hope this thread isn't veering too far off-topic (if it does, perhaps we should open a new thread) but I just have to respond to some of the points that Antises, 'ANON - from the girls' school' and 'a different guest' have made! Here we go: To Antises: Apparently, you think that "girls don't need ...
- Sun Feb 29, 2004 10:03 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
Hi ANON - from the girls' school! Well, of course it's sexual discrimination! As is their stupid generalisation about a man feeling the need to protect and a woman needing to be loved. I feel a strong need to protect AND to be protected and loved. Does this make me a man and a woman at the same time...
- Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:03 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
In reply to the latest Guest posting - by the way, I think Mike's suggestion of using a fake name if you want to remain anonymous is a good one - I would say that any teacher who believes corporal punishment is the only way to discipline boys should not be teaching boys! Anyway, why is physical assa...
- Sun Feb 29, 2004 11:16 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
A correction
A correction: In the interests of truth (well, I'm interested in it even if the SES isn't!) I would like to correct something I wrote in a previous post. In my first post on this thread I mistakenly wrote that the former headmaster of St Vedast boys' school (Nicholas Debenham) "is still beating chil...
- Sat Feb 28, 2004 9:00 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
I was very interested to read the anonymous contributions from the two current St James pupils. Here are my responses: To the pupil at the girls' school: Many thanks for your contribution! I'm very glad (and rather amazed!) to read that so much has apparently changed at the school. If you are indeed...
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:54 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
Hi Christopher, I've just read your post. I'm glad you're able to be so philosophical about your experiences! I agree that Mr Howell was basically fairly decent. I always felt he didn't really belong in such a brutal establishment. One of the very few other teachers there with any decency about them...
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:31 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
Hi Dan! Good to hear from you! Your post brought back some of the very few happy memories I have of my time at St Vedast. I'm very impressed that you managed to stay so calm when you met Hipshon and Debenham - I'm not sure I could have! I'm not at all surprised by their reactions, though. Denial and...
- Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:46 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
- Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:33 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: EXPERIENCES AT ST. VEDAST (now St. James) AND THE S.E.S
- Replies: 604
- Views: 902011
Identifying myself
Just to say that the above post (my response to Mathew's account, and my own experiences at St Vedast) was mine! It appeared anonymously because I posted it before I registered.
Tom
Tom