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- Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:32 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Inheritence and wills: SES source of wealth
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22987
Dad put a bequest in his will. Mum pointed out that she had no intention of predeceasing him and this would leave her struggling financially. Dad still firmly believes that he 'ought' to leave a substantial donation to the SES when he dies. Mum won, which in my view is entirely right as they're not ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:37 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Roger Pincham's Retirement Video
- Replies: 28
- Views: 48072
- Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:13 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: St Vedast Survivors 25 Year Reunion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11462
- Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:12 pm
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: The 'Tale Of The 50 women' stories from the 70's
- Replies: 42
- Views: 80452
I would suggest that my father is probably one of the most reasonable men I know (except for whatever possessed him to inflict this cultish doctrine on his kids) and yet he cannot be reasoned with when it comes to this and cannot see the flaws in his own rational. Bonsai ditto... as were many of th...
- Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:20 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Leaflets and grafitti
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18820
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:49 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: The 1996 report
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59792
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:48 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: The 1996 report
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59792
and the letter to Townend: 16 November 2005 Dear Mr Townend, I have reflected at some length on your challenging question as to whether St James could successfully separate itself form the school of Economic Science (SES) and operate as a genuine standalone organisation. For a variety of reasons I d...
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:37 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: The 1996 report
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59792
and the letter to Townend: 16 November 2005 Dear Mr Townend, I have reflected at some length on your challenging question as to whether St James could successfully separate itself form the school of Economic Science (SES) and operate as a genuine standalone organisation. For a variety of reasons I d...
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:10 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: The 1996 report
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59792
Here's the text of the intro page: 1996 St James Schools Governors' Report Introduction to the the report by the author I was a governor of St James in the late 80's and 90's. As someone working in the property business my role was principally to advise on premises strategy and development opportuni...
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:47 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: The 1996 report
- Replies: 28
- Views: 59792
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 1:25 pm
- Forum: Cults and religious organisations generally
- Topic: Cult-like similarities
- Replies: 9
- Views: 21179
HAHAAH physical mortification.......REALLY? keep 'em coming! BLAH BLAH BLAH :p sam! Sam, I don't remember any suggestion that I should deliberately self harm, but if you consider 'mortification' can be used as a term to describe self denial and privation then it's very apt. And I bet there's more t...
- Thu May 25, 2006 2:56 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An apology from the SES
- Replies: 19
- Views: 33530
Thank you Chittani, it was nice to catch up with you again too. Whilst I'm very glad to see an apology from Lambie it's notable that once again it's published on a little out of the way website and is therefore not exactly courageous... ... neither does it deal with the actual problem of the governo...
- Thu May 25, 2006 7:17 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: The next step: we need to act!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 61517
- Mon May 22, 2006 8:17 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: The Melbourne School
- Replies: 208
- Views: 363014
Re: getting a bit too critical ?
A friend who does reptile shows in many government and private schools, including Erasmus, made the observation that the children at Erasmus were noticeably MORE 'well behaved' and seemed to run around less than the typical school. Surely biting etc behaviour would be less prevalent among tightly c...
- Fri May 19, 2006 6:48 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Tears Roll Down
- Replies: 96
- Views: 171577