Public school for those of private means
Moneyed people the toffs the ruling class
Special education university
Access to position in society
Keep it in the family
Money most of all
Church needs priests
Start a seminary
Round up boys from home
Incarcerate
Keep them from the girls
Help them morph through time
To celibate
This is grooming
Never education
Recruiting units
The system now to serve
It’s broken now
What’s left is ruined houses
Indictment of self-serving selfishness
Clothed in black
All life drained out of them
Brian’s gone
My father said the night I went away
He knew it then
He’d lost his first-born son
Brian Fahy
30 January 2022
+ A newspaper headline caught my eye this morning. Justin Webb says, ‘I weep for any child who, like me, is sent to boarding school at eleven.’ It set me thinking about how and why public schools in the UK and junior seminaries originated. They are systems of educating certain chosen ones to grow up and to inherit and to perpetuate the system, be it the privileged classes who rule the country or the elected ones who become the clergy.
To take children away from their parents and siblings and friends and locality is a cruel and unjust thing to do.
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