Ampleforth School done?
Discussion
Banned from taking new pupils due to child sex abuse
Is that the end of it?
https://news.sky.com/story/ampleforth-college-36k-...
Is that the end of it?
https://news.sky.com/story/ampleforth-college-36k-...
My old school used have quite close ties with Ampleforth. Played them at Rugby/Cricket etc
Our lot were Jesuits as opposed to monks.
Cant say I'm surprised, closed religious orders full of men who supposedly live in chastity whilst fighting the devil within,often suppressing desire with alcohol is never going to end well.
My thoughts are with the children, who in the closed environment of a boarding school had nowhere to run
Our lot were Jesuits as opposed to monks.
Cant say I'm surprised, closed religious orders full of men who supposedly live in chastity whilst fighting the devil within,often suppressing desire with alcohol is never going to end well.
My thoughts are with the children, who in the closed environment of a boarding school had nowhere to run
It's been common knowledge for years that Ampleforth has serious problems with CSA
It astonishes me that parents will pay £36k a year to risk their kid being sodomised
Luke Jennings' Memoir of Ampleforth, Blood Knots, on the other hand, cannot be recommended highly enough.
It astonishes me that parents will pay £36k a year to risk their kid being sodomised
Luke Jennings' Memoir of Ampleforth, Blood Knots, on the other hand, cannot be recommended highly enough.
There was an excellent article in The Spectator a couple of years ago about the sorry state of the 2 leading Catholic public schools Ampleforth and Downside, linked here:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-tale-of-two-...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-tale-of-two-...
I went to Ampleforth. Didn't experience any of the terrible things that have been reported but considering it is now public knowledge I am really surprised that parents still send their children there. I can only assume that the parents of children in attendance today must be uber catholics as that's the only thing that would make sense.
Well, it is a good school in many respects. But there are quite a lot of good schools that you can pay £30k+ to attend and they're not all surrounded by the scandal of pretty horrific abuse.
They already had to close the prep school (which I also attended) and I would say the twin pressures of boarding not being as popular a choice as it was in the past and the impact on reputation will make it hard for new families to choose the school.
Of course I know lots of families virtually have it in the blood to attend Ampleforth. I was the third generation of my family and that wasn't particularly unusual. I guess they will continue to attend. But what about others who are choosing between Ampleforth, Dulwich College, and St Peters (other schools picked at random).
They already had to close the prep school (which I also attended) and I would say the twin pressures of boarding not being as popular a choice as it was in the past and the impact on reputation will make it hard for new families to choose the school.
Of course I know lots of families virtually have it in the blood to attend Ampleforth. I was the third generation of my family and that wasn't particularly unusual. I guess they will continue to attend. But what about others who are choosing between Ampleforth, Dulwich College, and St Peters (other schools picked at random).
When the Government tells a school it must stop accepting new students because of concerns about safeguarding it must surely be a death knell. Never mind the potential income that will be lost, existing parents will need to have an extraordinarily strong belief in the importance of a Catholic education to want their children to remain there.
Given all the adverse publicity, its location and of course the ever-dwindling number of Catholics prepared to stump up £36.5k a year, it's hard to see how it is going to survive.
Given all the adverse publicity, its location and of course the ever-dwindling number of Catholics prepared to stump up £36.5k a year, it's hard to see how it is going to survive.
Telling - but probably not surprising - that their response was to deny that there is an issue and seek to shift blame to others.
Why is it that the Catholic Church and organisations affiliated to it are so persistently incapable of either acknowledging and addressing safeguarding issues or recognising the reputation all own-goals they score by their denials?
Why is it that the Catholic Church and organisations affiliated to it are so persistently incapable of either acknowledging and addressing safeguarding issues or recognising the reputation all own-goals they score by their denials?
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