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....