reading this week's nyer, about a sex scandal at Horace Mann (one of two or three there), the author buries this ppgh: in recent years reports have surfaced of sexual abuse at St Paul's, Andover, Exeter and other prominent private schools. (51). He then goes on to mention Buckingham Browne and Nichols. Canadians can add Selwyn Hall in Montreal, and UCC in Toronto.

Reports here, mean that those who have gone to the police, or have resulted in settlemants—reports that have been made part of the official discourse. The schools have a number of things in common—they were at the time of the reporting, or continue to be single sex, they encourage a kind of secrecy, they cost a lot of money to get into, they are boarding or have compoenents of boarding attached to them, etc etc.

Ironically—the closeness of a boarding school, might have been the schools undoing. Just as the homosocialness suggests a kind of boundry policing that allowed teachers to have sex with students to isolate them, into thinking that they were so special, that no one would understand the practice—when students returned to schools or found each other online, they found they were not alone, and a reversal of the loyalty kicked in. each of these settlements came when a group of boys got together, and worked collectively in order to find justice. There is something in the effort to make butch corps d'espirt

(personal overshare—though some of the recent renuinons online and in person have occurred since sjsa have shut down, so many of the people in the school are committed to it's program, and the loyalty does not seem to allow for this reversal to occur. The idea that what occurred at sjsa was abusive is not allowed to be part of the discourse. Also, the other schools mentioned had a sexual breach—the homosociality was breached sexually—noone at sjsa has admitted that they were fucked by other students, or fucked by other teachers, much of the role that other teachers had, was not to isolate and seperate students as a way to make them part of the elite, but to strip any indviduality off them, and working against the instincts of Selwyn or UCC.)

(which makes me think—is there scandals that are left to emerge re: Lynn Ward or Fork Hill or etc. Also, b/c of Byfield's influence—sjsa and most likely the other ones, were so fucking weird, that their might not have been distincit similarities)