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Those boarding schools make for some quality upbringing!

"Winston Churchill would recall the floggings, done until pupils “bled freely” and screamed loudly. In “Such, Such Were The Joys”, George Orwell writes of being beaten so violently that his headmaster broke his riding crop and “reduced me to tears”."

Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools https://economist.com/britain/2023/05/28/sad-little-boys-the... from The Economist



Love your anecdata. Would you like me to list abusive parents as counter examples?


Sure, why not. But your reposte, as it is, is pretty weak.




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