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'''Greenfields School''' is an [[Applied Scholastics]] and [[Independent Schools Association (UK)|Independent Schools Association]]<ref>[http://www.isaschools.org.uk/teachers/schools/schools.aspx?sgrID=3 School List] Independent Schools' Association South London</ref> co-educational [[independent school]] on the edge of the [[Ashdown Forest]] in [[East Sussex]], England. |
'''Greenfields School''' is an [[Applied Scholastics]] and [[Independent Schools Association (UK)|Independent Schools Association]]<ref>[http://www.isaschools.org.uk/teachers/schools/schools.aspx?sgrID=3 School List] Independent Schools' Association South London</ref> co-educational [[independent school]] on the edge of the [[Ashdown Forest]] in [[East Sussex]], England. |
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The school has been described as a school run by [[Scientology]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2264059 |title=New dawn of Dianetics - Article |publisher=TES |date= |accessdate=2012-05-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1975105.ece |title=The Times | UK News, World News and Opinion |publisher=Timesonline.co.uk |date=2010-12-21 |accessdate=2012-05-31}}</ref> something they deny.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} 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 McQuade used "false, spurious" titles.<ref>{{cite news |
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| work = Evening Argus |
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| location = Brighton & Hove, United Kingdom |
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| publisher = [[Gannett Company]] |
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| date = June 10, 1994}}</ref> |
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In 1994, one of the few non-scientologist teachers from the school was jailed for five years after he admitted sexually molesting teenage pupils.<ref>{{cite news| title= Teacher is jailed for sex offences |work= [[The Independent]]|date=21 January 1994 |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/teacher-is-jailed-for-sex-offences-1408313.html|quote=Mark Kent, 32, of Forest Row, East Sussex, committed a catalogue of offences against boys at Greenfields school in Forest Row, where he worked. |location=London}}</ref> |
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Greenfields School is an Applied Scholastics and Independent Schools Association[1] co-educational independent school on the edge of the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England.
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