Charles Spencer's Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting
But parents are still sending children away to board, and it’s still dangerous.
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But parents are still sending children away to board, and it’s still dangerous.
A flurry of student suicides has raised fears that elite prep schools can push young people over the edge.
John Claughton, a master at Eton from 1984 to 2001, apologised in a letter to The Times that the school had not done its job in trying to remove the ‘sense of privilege, entitlement and omniscience’ from Tory politicians like the former PM Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Kwasi Kwarteng – saying that they had damaged the ‘very fabric of the country’.
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The broadcaster Ivan Yates once said of his boarding school experience that "terror mixed with homesickness" led him to cry himself to sleep, night after night.