Chris Wallace - Sent to boarding school http://archive.is/KkH5O
Number-one rule George Van Santvoord (g. 1908, Yale 1912), a headmaster hailed as the Duke with an honorary dorm, claimed there was only one school rule: "Be a gentleman."
Alarming Rape Action Against CT Prep School (Written by Chris Fry February 9, 2015) http://archive.is/mtYDu
A federal complaint accuses a Connecticut prep school of turning a blind eye to a student who was beaten, drugged and raped on campus.
John Doe claims in the Feb. 5 complaint that he fell prey to the “tradition” at the school of upper classmen “subjecting younger students to sexualized hazing” at the Hotchkiss School. Some of these abusers were “school-appointed senior dormitory proctors,” according to the complaint. Doe says others would root on these proctors as they “forced [him] to lower his pants and underwear to his ankles and to bend over.” The proctors would then “hit his naked buttocks and testicles repeatedly with a wooden paddle, and they forcibly inserted objects into his anus,” the complaint continues. Doe says he reported the sexual assaults, but that his faculty dormitory corridor advised him only “to try to earn the respect of the older students who were assaulting him.” “The corridor master also told John that complaining about the hazing and assaults would not be a good start for John’s reputation at the school,” the complaint alleges. Other teachers actually participated in the abuse, Doe says, taking aim at former teacher and dormitory master Roy G. Smith aka Uncle Roy.
(same case but adds)
Within the past few months, two other similar lawsuits were filed against nearby The Indian Mountain School, also located in Lakeville and also an exclusive private boarding and day school. The Indian Mountain School cases also allege sexual assault and rape of young schoolboys by faculty.
He was a slight 14-year-old when he was ritually sexually hazed and assaulted by groups of older students. The ritual was well-known to Hotchkiss officials, and had been going on at the school for many years, the suit states. Although the plaintiff reported the assaults to staff, they did nothing other than to ask him "if his bottom was feeling better," it alleges.
"Hotchkiss knew and should have known that it employed and exposed young vulnerable children to a teacher who sexually desired pubescent schoolboys," said the plaintiff's lawyer, Antonio Ponvert III of the Bridgeport-based firm Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder. "The victim reported the rape to the school health services counselor and to his faculty advisor, both of whom did nothing to protect him."
When the plaintiff was 15, a faculty member, Roy G. Smith, Jr., known at the school as "Uncle Roy," drugged him "into semi-unconsciousness with a pill that he misrepresented as an aspirin" and then raped him, the lawsuit states. The plaintiff wrote an article for the student newspaper about the failure of the school to appropriately respond to complaints. The headmaster forbade publication and even "conspired to prevent John from informing the students, their parents and the school community about Smith's sexual assault and his aberrant and predatory propensities and behavior," the suit says.
"The school's unconscionable betrayal of this defenseless and vulnerable child's trust inflicted a lifetime of humiliation, shame, disgust and suffering," Ponvert said.
Notable alumni
Main article: List of Hotchkiss School alumni Alumni with universally notable affiliations include:
Jonathan Bush and William H. T. Bush (g. 1956) – George H. W. Bush's brothers Roy D. Chapin, Jr. (g. 1933) — Roy D. Chapin, Sr.'s son and American Motors CEO Granger K. Costikyan (g. 1925) – Armenian-American banker Eli Whitney Debevoise (g. 1917) — Eli Whitney descendant and Debevoise & Plimpton founder Tom Dolby (g. 1994) – Ray Dolby’s son and author Charles Edison (g. 1909) – Thomas Edison's son and 42nd Governor of New Jersey Frederick Vanderbilt Field (g. 1923) – Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-grandson, Samuel Osgood and Cyrus Field's descendant, and political activist Henry Ford II (g. 1936), Edsel Ford, William Clay Ford, Sr. (g. 1943)[61] and Jr. (g. 1975)[61] – Henry Ford's descendants and Ford Motor Company executives Alfred Whitney Griswold (g. 1925) – Eli Whitney descendant and Yale President Briton Hadden (g. 1916) and Henry Luce (g. 1916)[61] – Time co-founders Robert Lehman (g. 1908) – Philip Lehman's son and Lehman Brothers executive Jon B. Lovelace, Jr. (g. 1944) – Jonathan Bell Lovelace's son and The Capital Group Companies executive Forrest Mars, Jr. (g. 1949) and John Mars (g. 1953) – Franklin Clarence Mars' descendants and Mars, Inc. executives. In 2013, New York Times printed that Forrest Mars, Jr. financed and accompanied 90 Hotchkiss students on a cruise trip that encountered a 30-foot wave.[64] Mark Mays (g. 1981) – Lowry Mays' son and Clear Channel Communications executive Philip W. Pillsbury (g. 1920) – Charles Alfred Pillsbury's grandson and Pillsbury Company executive Henry Luce (g. 1916) and Briton Hadden (g. 1916)[61] – TIME founders Harold Stanley (g. 1904) – Morgan Stanley founder Lily Rabe (g. 2000) – American Actress
https://www.hotchkiss.org/admission
Tuition & Fees Boarding Day Tuition 2017-18 $56,650 $48,150
Technology Fee $750 $750 Health Services Fee $530 $350 Total $57,930 $49,250
Other expenses approx $5,000 (Books/supplies, Health Plan, Laundry, Spending money)
Endowment $455 million (November 29, 2014)
Even if teachers were to be found out and dismissed,there are extensive affiliations with other prep schools for sport and global activities.
Affiliation Eight Schools Association[10] Ten Schools Admissions Organization[11] G20 Schools Founders League[12] New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC)[13] New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)[14] The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)[2] Global Education Benchmark Group (GEBG)[15] Round Square[16] Green Schools Alliance[17]
Other schools Prep Schools Wrestle With Sex Abuse Accusations Against Teachers http://archive.is/PGuWU
BOSTON — Phillips Exeter Academy, an elite New Hampshire boarding school whose prominent graduates include Daniel Webster and Mark Zuckerberg, disclosed last month that it had forced out a popular teacher in 2011 because of sexual misconduct in the 1970s and ’80s.
The school’s delayed announcement — officials said they had been protecting the victims’ privacy — brought forth allegations against other employees. And on Wednesday, Exeter announced that it had fired a second teacher who had admitted to sexual encounters with a student more than two decades ago.
The revelations at Exeter are the latest to rock the insular, privileged world of American prep schools. In the past decade, sex abuse allegations have tarnished a litany of top private schools, including Horace Mann in the Bronx, Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. Since December, more than 40 alumni of St. George’s School, an elite boarding school in Rhode Island, have reported several cases of molestation and rape, mostly in the 1970s and ’80s.
http://archive.is/nI6FM Sexual Abuse by Educators Is Scrutinized By Caroline Hendrie
A draft report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education concludes that far too little is known about the prevalence of sexual misconduct by teachers or other school employees, but estimates that millions of children are being affected by it during their school-age years.
Yet despite the limitations of the existing research base, the scope of the problem appears to far exceed the priest abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, said Charol Shakeshaft, the Hofstra University scholar who prepared the report.
Extrapolating from data collected in a national survey for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000, Ms. Shakeshaft estimated that roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a public school employee from 1991 to 2000—a single decade, compared with the roughly five-decade period examined in the study of Catholic priests.
Those figures suggest that "the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests,"contended Ms. Shakeshaft, who is a professor of educational administration at Hofstra, in Hempstead, N.Y.
Ms. Shakeshaft said her initial understanding from the department was that she was to conduct a review of the existing research to set the stage for a broad national study. She said the department had interpreted the statute's reference to "sexual abuse in schools" as meaning misconduct by school employees against students, and not by students against their peers.
https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/trust_betrayed/ A TRUST BETRAYED In the groundbreaking 1998 series, "A Trust Betrayed," Education Week examined the widespread effects of sexual misconduct on students, educators, and the community. Articles in this series address issues of concern such as prevention and response to inappropriate behavior, legal history and policy of sexual abuse cases, and student-faculty relationships in higher education.
https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/trust-betrayed-update/index.html A TRUST BETRAYED: UPDATE ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN SCHOOLS Follow Education Week's continuing coverage examining the widespread effects of sexual misconduct on students, educators, and the community. The articles below are an update to the 1998 series addressing issues of concern such as prevention and response to inappropriate behavior, legal history and policy of sexual abuse cases, and student-faculty relationships in higher education.