Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:42 pm
Sorry to interupt, but...
I would just like to clear up this whole issue with pausing, it may be outdated in your current conversation, but I've written it and am not going to delete it.
All pausing is, is sitting down with eyes closed and back straight, saying "To the Lord, a bow" in Sanskrit, is this so criminal? It does not mean a bow to "Lord Lambie" or "Darth Maclaren" it is just a simple dedication of the actions of an activity to what is to come. If you did not want your child exposed to these kind of things, why on earth did you send your child to this school? The prospectus clearly states what the school is about, did you choose to ignore it. Don't you think a small period of calm is good for a group of young, hyperactive, children to sit down and be still for a moment? I should know, I have a 7 year old brother in St James, school is the only place where he behaves properly. I have been in this school since 1994, I have turned out completely fine, I achieved good GCSEs, I have a good social life with people mainly outside of St James, mainly girls at that. I find that in all other schools that I have come accross in London, there has been a huge drug problem. They cannot expel students as our school does, because everone does drugs! Be it marajuana or stronger, they all have a drug problem, I'm not saying that this makes them bad people, although it can quite easily change a person's character more than the early years of St Vedast and St James. We do not have a drug problem, I can say it proudly WE DO NOT HAVE A DRUG PROBLEM. This isn't because we expel all the druggies, it's because there is no drug use in St James, and if there is, there is very very little, I am very well informed on this as I am friendly with many people in the upper half of the senior school. This is by the by. The point I am trying to make is that the SES is only a cult to those that are blind, to those that can only see the exterior of things. Why call the SES a cult if you've never been a part of it? I am a part of it and I can say that it is most definately not a cult. I should know what a cult is because I now have the leader of a cult living behind me in a huge house in Hampstead, I shan't mention the name. I have met them, they are very nice, of course, but they are nothing like the SES people, THEY are brainwashed, the elders speak in an almost monotonous tone as they offer us a beer on bonfire night, as they crowd around their, what seemed to be, religious circle. This is lit by flamed torches, oooo how very creepy it was, hahahaaa. When we ask who now owns the house, they can only acknowledge him as the "Englishman." THIS is a description of a cult and there is no way that you can call the SES a cult compared to this, and I haven't even got going about their ritualistic initiations, like making people walk on hot coals and leaving them outside in the freezing cold for days on end, and their worship of a sole leader of the "clan" as they call themselves, it is a secret society, which the SES is most definately not, they have massive advertisements all over London. I am sorry, no, the SES is not a cult. It does not control our school, and that is that.
I have known many people that pass through this school, I have not known one of them to be "brainwashed" especially by pausing at the beginning and end of every activity. Please, I urge you not to continue this damned argument. I am only fighting for what I believe to be right, we have proved you wrong on a number of times, many of you haven't even seen the school after corporal punishment was thrown out. Parent, I honestly respect your views, you see both sides of the argument, thank you for being so unbiased in your opinion. Please can we all put this behind us? We have no reason to be going at each others necks, especially when we are so outnumbred.
Regards
I would just like to clear up this whole issue with pausing, it may be outdated in your current conversation, but I've written it and am not going to delete it.
All pausing is, is sitting down with eyes closed and back straight, saying "To the Lord, a bow" in Sanskrit, is this so criminal? It does not mean a bow to "Lord Lambie" or "Darth Maclaren" it is just a simple dedication of the actions of an activity to what is to come. If you did not want your child exposed to these kind of things, why on earth did you send your child to this school? The prospectus clearly states what the school is about, did you choose to ignore it. Don't you think a small period of calm is good for a group of young, hyperactive, children to sit down and be still for a moment? I should know, I have a 7 year old brother in St James, school is the only place where he behaves properly. I have been in this school since 1994, I have turned out completely fine, I achieved good GCSEs, I have a good social life with people mainly outside of St James, mainly girls at that. I find that in all other schools that I have come accross in London, there has been a huge drug problem. They cannot expel students as our school does, because everone does drugs! Be it marajuana or stronger, they all have a drug problem, I'm not saying that this makes them bad people, although it can quite easily change a person's character more than the early years of St Vedast and St James. We do not have a drug problem, I can say it proudly WE DO NOT HAVE A DRUG PROBLEM. This isn't because we expel all the druggies, it's because there is no drug use in St James, and if there is, there is very very little, I am very well informed on this as I am friendly with many people in the upper half of the senior school. This is by the by. The point I am trying to make is that the SES is only a cult to those that are blind, to those that can only see the exterior of things. Why call the SES a cult if you've never been a part of it? I am a part of it and I can say that it is most definately not a cult. I should know what a cult is because I now have the leader of a cult living behind me in a huge house in Hampstead, I shan't mention the name. I have met them, they are very nice, of course, but they are nothing like the SES people, THEY are brainwashed, the elders speak in an almost monotonous tone as they offer us a beer on bonfire night, as they crowd around their, what seemed to be, religious circle. This is lit by flamed torches, oooo how very creepy it was, hahahaaa. When we ask who now owns the house, they can only acknowledge him as the "Englishman." THIS is a description of a cult and there is no way that you can call the SES a cult compared to this, and I haven't even got going about their ritualistic initiations, like making people walk on hot coals and leaving them outside in the freezing cold for days on end, and their worship of a sole leader of the "clan" as they call themselves, it is a secret society, which the SES is most definately not, they have massive advertisements all over London. I am sorry, no, the SES is not a cult. It does not control our school, and that is that.
I have known many people that pass through this school, I have not known one of them to be "brainwashed" especially by pausing at the beginning and end of every activity. Please, I urge you not to continue this damned argument. I am only fighting for what I believe to be right, we have proved you wrong on a number of times, many of you haven't even seen the school after corporal punishment was thrown out. Parent, I honestly respect your views, you see both sides of the argument, thank you for being so unbiased in your opinion. Please can we all put this behind us? We have no reason to be going at each others necks, especially when we are so outnumbred.
Regards
time to talk to the angels