In April this year Louis de Bernières wrote a piece for News Review about his time at the boys’ boarding school Grenham House in the 1960s. His painful account described the beatings, molestations and chilblains of his miserable five years at the establishment. Taken together with data collected by the journalist Alex Renton and ITN researchers, just under 1,000 people have shared their experiences at the time of writing, spanning around 500 schools. More shocking than the number of responses was what our readers were telling us. While some wanted to highlight the positives of their education, more often than not readers recounted beatings, sexual abuse

Source: The Times December 05, 2021 05:55 UTC