Greenfields School
Greenfields School is an Applied Scholastics and Independent Schools Association[1] private school on the edge of the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England. It is unique as being the only Study Tech-based private school of its kind in the area.[2] It originally opened in Hammerwood in 1981 without planning permission, and was forced to move sites by the local authority.
The school has been described as a school run by Scientology[3][4], something they deny.[citation needed] The school and its staff have misrepresented themselves in the past: inspectors from the Department for Education who toured Greenfields in 1985 noted: "Many children are reading, and certainly writing, at a level below what they might be expected to achieve.", despite the school claiming that the students were over a year ahead in reading. The High Court have also stated that Deputy Principal Mark McQuade used "false, spurious" titles.[5] In 1994, one of the few non-scientologist teachers from the school was jailed for five years after he admitted sexually molesting teenage pupils.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ School List Independent Schools' Association South London
- ^ About Greenfields Greenfields Homepage
- ^ http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2264059
- ^ Siret, Mal. The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1975105.ece.
- ^ "The Missing Word". Evening Argus (Brighton & Hove, United Kingdom: Gannett Company). Friday, June 10, 1994.
- ^ "Teacher is jailed for sex offences". The Independent (London). 21 January 1994. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/teacher-is-jailed-for-sex-offences-1408313.html. "Mark Kent, 32, of Forest Row, East Sussex, committed a catalogue of offences against boys at Greenfields school in Forest Row, where he worked."
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