Students were 'treated like slaves' at independent school under out-dated fagging system
“That place was insane – 'horrific' would be the best way to describe it.” He said he begged his parents to remove him from the school. “There was no accountability, there was no one you could go to.” Current board chair Hugh Lindo said fagging had been “part and parcel of life in a boarding house” and ranged from cleaning an older boy's shoes to running to the shop to get them sweets. “It was very much a core tradition of life, particularly in boarding houses.” RNZ A disconnected telephone helpline, missing files that detailed sexual abuse, and a serious lack of trai...
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