As is so common in British (or should that just be English?) boarding schools, where the pretty young lads of 14 and younger get buggered sore by the bigger boys and, quite often, by the masters who are supposed to be taking care of them in the dorms.
With the stories that went round when I was at school, I used to thank God for making me a day boy. We knew very well about a number of masters who had a penchant for queering up the boys, and never had much doubt as to why they chose to enter the teaching profession. But I never heard of any of them getting into trouble for it – and I feel quite sure that the boys would have been a lot better off if it had been the matron or one of the rare female teachers who had been taking care of their sexual initiation in place of those predatory masters and sixth-formers.
As is so common in British (or should that just be English?) boarding schools, where the pretty young lads of 14 and younger get buggered sore by the bigger boys and, quite often, by the masters who are supposed to be taking care of them in the dorms.
With the stories that went round when I was at school, I used to thank God for making me a day boy. We knew very well about a number of masters who had a penchant for queering up the boys, and never had much doubt as to why they chose to enter the teaching profession. But I never heard of any of them getting into trouble for it – and I feel quite sure that the boys would have been a lot better off if it had been the matron or one of the rare female teachers who had been taking care of their sexual initiation in place of those predatory masters and sixth-formers.[/quote]
Thanks for that Omni…now I’ll never, ever be able to watch another Harry Potter movie again without thinking about Hagrid buggering Harry.
As is so common in British (or should that just be English?) boarding schools, where the pretty young lads of 14 and younger get buggered sore by the bigger boys and, quite often, by the masters who are supposed to be taking care of them in the dorms.
With the stories that went round when I was at school, I used to thank God for making me a day boy. We knew very well about a number of masters who had a penchant for queering up the boys, and never had much doubt as to why they chose to enter the teaching profession. But I never heard of any of them getting into trouble for it – and I feel quite sure that the boys would have been a lot better off if it had been the matron or one of the rare female teachers who had been taking care of their sexual initiation in place of those predatory masters and sixth-formers.[/quote]
Omni, what you are representing here is more form the victorian era, i did board in school, and there was never any suggestion or rumours going around of boys being buggered by either the sixth formers or the masters.
You’ve been watching to much Tom Browns’ schooldays.
So come on all you survivors of English (or any other country’s) boarding schools out there, tell us about your experiences of what went on after lights out or in the showers or behind the bicycle sheds or wherever. Did any of your masters or mistresses ever fall foul of the authorities for getting too chummy with the kids in their charge? Did you come away from it scarred for life, with a bad case of “the English disease” or a taste for cane-wielding women in leather, or did it all flow over and around you like water off a duck’s back?
Omni, did you go to an all boys school?
[Edited - sorry, Omni quoted me while I was editing my post]
Omni from your comments, it sounds like you didn’t actually go to a boarding school. No one who has ever been to a boarding school, even as a day pupil, would have such silly, stereotypical misconceptions about what it is like in a boarding school.
In the co-ed boarding school I went to the runours were all about which boys were shagging which girls.
There were also rumours about which of the sixth form girls was shagging the twenty-something drama teacher in his flat.
Boys would often joke about who was a ‘bummer’ but I never heard any rumours about boys having gay sex or boys being sexually abused by the house master.
How I envy those who have attended there in the more enlightened era since they opened their gates to girls. And now I’ve heard that the lucky blighters even have some Chinese girls to moon over in the school! What more could they possibly ask for?
Oh, you’ve rewritten your post since my first reply!
Anyway, your modified comments are far off the mark: we day boys were outnumbered three to one by the boarders.
But of course, as someone who attended one of these wonderful new co-ed establishments, you’d hardly be able to even imagine what it was like in the “good old days” of hard-caning, single-sex schooling.
BTW, it’s an interesting take that anything that doesn’t fall within the vast compass of your own first-hand experience may be scoffingly dismissed as a “silly, stereotypical misconception”. Hmmm…
Sorry, I must have been editing while you were writing your post.
There’s nothing new about co-ed boarding schools in England, Omni. The school I went to has been a co-ed since the day it was founded over a hundred years ago!
You don’t think your comments about boarding schools are silly or stereotypical? Well, I do. And I believe that most people who have been to a modern English boarding school would agree with me - all except you, of course.
The first thing you said in the first post was:
What do you base this assertion on? Are you quite certain that this is not a silly thing to say and that it does in no way help to perpetuate stereotypes about boarding schools? No offence Omni, but your whole approach to the topic of boarding schools strikes me as giggly and immature.
Frankly, I hadn’t heard of any – not even one – respectable co-ed boarding school until about twenty years ago, when just about all of England’s good schools began admitting girls. Certainly, none of the schools we played rugby, cricket and hockey against had any girl pupils whatsoever. (I believe, however, that my old school did have a brief phase in its history when boys and girls studied together in its classrooms, but that was well before my time, back in the late 17th century).
Was yours some kind of “comprehensive school”, like that horrible place in the same town as ours, whose ruffianly students always tried to pick fights with us and knock our caps off? That would surprise me, as I’d never heard of schools like that taking boarders.
I spent a month one summer at Hadham Hall when I was 12. It was pretty much everything I imagined a Boarding school to be. I don’t remember getting it on with any of the faculty, though. Hmmm. Maybe I’ve suppressed the memory. :s
Weird. I just did an internet search for Hadham Hall and only came up with this. Do they not even have a website?
Omni, see what we have done So prepared to name the school or not, as it appears that we were both a school in roughly the same area.
I attended boarding school in UK for some 12 years, and they were never any rumours nor proven facts of masters buggering little boys etc.
In fac the only scandal we had, was after female day pupils were accepted, one senior boarder got caught with one of the girls in his dorm, both exited the college fairly rapidly.
However, that was many a year ago, so maybe a few more scandals since.
Southpaw, why that comment, we were not rich, all tuition fees etc were paid by the company my father worked for, they wanted him abroad, that was the cost.
