If you set up a forum "to facilitate open and honest discussion and
reflection", don't be surprised that some people,s needs in the forum
may not be concerned with physical abuse from the days of St. Vedast-
not directly anyway. Perhaps they wern't born then! They will listen
with dismay at what took place - they will be keen for resolution.
But they may find more recent incidents alarming too. The "7th Form" -
who participates actively in it? It would appear that pasr pupils
fall into 3 catagories -those who enter ses and therefore maybe the
7th form, those who run a mile!, and those who keep a low profile. It
doesn't seem like an open situation. The value of the work St. James
does is not in question - the unspoken price of it should be.