It would be useful to hear from current pupils. Beatings are
certainly out so presumably those men who administered beatings and
are still on the staff are having to actually find teaching methods
that do not involve such brute force -hopefully this will lead to
them having to actually have some qualification in what they teach
rather than the assumption that as "philosophers" they'll be able to
teach anything
On the positive side, pupils going through the ses day schools are
not left to guess how to cope with issues they'll meet in the world -
they are given plenty of guidance and they are encouraged to value
the spiritual life. But this latter point is linked to maybe one of
the strongest aims of the day schools (albeit unwritten) - viz. that
the last part of their education at one of these schools leads to the
beginning of their membership into the ses. A head of the sisth form
who does not understand this to be their most important task in the
post would need to be replaced by someone still intoxicated with the
firm belief that becoming members of the ses is the only way to
ensure that we will go on to lead "useful" lives.