You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
Katherine, I appreciate your concern that the wrongs of the past should be acnowledged: "I entirely agree with you, and will do what I can to see that this ...
Dear Matthew You are right. I would have been appalled. But as you say, I wasn't there. My early experience of St James was exclusively of the girls'...
Katharine Watson
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Apr 1, 2004 8:59 pm
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Dear adrasteia_778, 'separate organisations' with undeniable and inextricable ties, therefore perhaps not entirely "leaving the Ses untouched and un- ...
Dear Katherine, I just wanted to add, I fully accept and believe you when you say you were not brainwashed. Thank God there were at least some with a degree of...
I note that most of the grievances cited from the dark ages of the SES Day Schools appear to be related to corporal punishment-i.e. we don't appear to have...
As a survivor of St Vedast boys' school, many of my grievances are indeed related to the use of corporal punishment at the school. But even if there had been...
Tom Grubb
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Apr 4, 2004 1:45 pm
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An interesting site- the SES's take on the Saint James' schools: http://www.schooleconomicscience.org/new/studies/education.htm It basically admits the links...
I notice there was not much response to gadflys_dreams message. Can anyone answer the questions or argue against what was implied? It worries me I supposed...
The following anti_ses poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What has the SES given you? CHOICES AND RESULTS - Calmer life, 1 votes,...
anti_ses@...
Apr 24, 2004 1:56 am
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I may be speaking too soon but, as far as I can gather from information on the Internet, it seems that the Abraham Lincoln School in New York is closing down....
Tom Grubb
tahg@...
Apr 26, 2004 7:02 pm
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I can't find anything on the net that says anything about it closing? But I'm probably not looking in the right place. Have you got an address with more...
Go to newyork.urbanbaby.com Click on "join our community" then on "schools" under "message boards". When you get to the board run a search on "Lincoln". Thanks...
Tom Grubb
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Apr 29, 2004 6:13 pm
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Yes sorry, just found it! cheers anyway I think I should put the address of Mike Gomez's Ses forum here as it is much more busy than this one, and people who...
St Vedast (now St James):- Alex Woolf's Testimony I do not write the following testimony for myself. i.e. I get no pleasure from it, nor any sense of...
Thank you Alex for yet another excellent account of what life was like at St Vedast. What impresses me most about it is the complete lack of any kind of...
Anger - The legacy of St Vedast We are now grown men in our thirties, some of us even married and with children. But we are still very, very ANGRY about this....
"Then of course there was Chris Southwell, Mr Howell, and Mr Farndell who were all just as vicious and nasty in their own way, especially Southwell. " Mr Chris...
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May 15, 2004 2:29 pm
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I dont wish to belittle or bring into disrepute the suffering of Alex Woolf and others, however as a current member of the sixth form i find some of the things...
Zaw Erskine
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May 15, 2004 5:36 pm
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Ummm, who said anything about naming and shaming? Wasnt me, think youve got the wrong person there Gibble Gabble. And no, naming and shaming is not our aim. If...
In response to Zaw, thank you for your interesting posting. I haven't set eyes on Barrington Barber in over 25 years, but I can tell you quite categorically...
As much as I would love to slag off the SES and St. James Schools about all the matters that have been brought up, I feel that they are all just in the past. I...
In reply to i90120i: "I presume your aim is to ensure no one else gets the abuse that you all did when you were at St James?" Do u really believe that this is...
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gibblegabblegobble@...
May 16, 2004 8:54 pm
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Matthew wrote: "Ummm, who said anything about naming and shaming? Wasnt me, think youve got the wrong person there Gibble Gabble. And no, naming and shaming is...
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gibblegabblegobble@...
May 16, 2004 9:23 pm
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Why won't you use your name, even a first one? For your information there are a group of african-americans who are currently taking legal action ( in response...
Dan Salaman
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May 17, 2004 9:55 am
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""We shall continue to be angry about this and speak out PUBLICLY against St James, St Vedast, the SES, and all of it's affiliated organisations (including...
""We shall continue to be angry about this and speak out PUBLICLY against St James, St Vedast, the SES, and all of it's affiliated organisations (including...
"Tackling and exploring the past is way of ENSURING THAT THE FUTURE IS BETTER, as well as educating everyone along the way." So Dan what are you doing to...
Gibble gabble wrote- "Mr Chris Southwell, is am amazing sports teacher. I do not know what was then, all I know is what is now, and i can most certainly claim ...
Dear All, This forum started out seemingly as a forum in which to air ones gripes with a system that many/all of us have/are imersed in. People commented on...
