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Separating children from parents in the name of privilege and positive intentions is wrong #endboarding

“It was a manor house, and there were only 52 girls. But that first night, you’re in a room with ten girls you’ve never met, in metal beds with tweed blankets over the top, and it’s lights out at seven. It’s traumatic, it’s completely traumatic.” standard.co.uk/showbiz/sienna…


I’m adding another character to the canon this year at the Edinburgh Fringe - a toxic ex-public schoolboy called ‘Fudgey’, who has a midlife crisis brought on by boarding school trauma. scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…


France 1871 - Founder of the Ecole Alsacienne: "no more boarding schools, no more barracks, the child’s natural faculties must be developed" museeprotestant.org/en/notice/jean…


Author Anthony Horowitz says parents sending their youngsters to private schools are 'destroying their children' after his own experience there did 'incalculable damage' to him dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…


I can’t imagine sending my kids to boarding school, says Lily Allen yahoo.com/news/t-imagine…


Peter Gabriel boarded @CharterhouseSch Lyrics to Salisbury Hill: I did not believe the information I just had to trust imagination My heart going boom boom boom "Son," he said "Grab your things, I've come to take you home" youtube.com/watch?v=_OO2Pu…


"I heard Adrian Edmondson talking about this, what boarding did to him. You’re one person at home and another person at school. And they’re very different people." bigissue.com/culture/tv/al-…


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