Saturday, December 4, 2010
Tonbridge School boys sent home for "pilfering" from local shops....
I was shocked to read the piece in a newspaper clipping: Under the headline: "Top School Sends 3 Boys Home: Three public school boys have been suspended for the rest of the term for shoplifting. They were sent home from Tonbridge School (fees £360 a year) after complaints from shop keepers in the town...." it goes on to say that "...the boys have been severely dealt with..." and that the shopkeepers have been completely reimbursed. I for one was flabbergasted to hear this of the well heeled boys who, let's face it, probably want for nothing in life. I blame their lack of respect on the demise of fagging myself! But let's not be too harsh on the school; the clue should have have been in the annual school fees which, so I understand, are more like £30,000 these days. This newspaper clipping is from the Daily Sketch (which doesn't even exist anymore,) from December 5th, 1962! It just happened to fall out of a book about the history of Tonbridge School. I wonder if the boys, who weren't named in the article, went on to be members of the government or captains of industry. We will never know....
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4 comments:
What a sight into the past... If this was to happen these days the kids might've got a weeks suspension and a slap on the wrists from the police.
Nice find Mr Books
Brilliant!
These days, their social worker would have told the court, "It wasn't their fault; they came from a priviledged background"!
Hopefully, back in the 60's, they got a good thrashing, before being expelled.
I thought the normal procedure for a top private school was to avoid scandal, usually by giving a glowing reference for the perpetrator to teach somewhere else.
As for the three boys, best to just say that they have been expelled, without actually cancelling the (these days)£90K p.a. they bring in.
Although the taxpayer supports private scools through tax breaks, they are businesses after all.
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