As ye sow, so shall ye reap
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As ye sow, so shall ye reap
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Now, as we reported last week, it’s all change at the Suffolk school.
Overindulgent, permissive parents have created discipline problems. Zoe Neill Readhead, daughter of the founder, Fifer A S Neill, is cracking the whip at pupils to restore order. Critics in the media who take regular swipes at the school will say it was always wayward and ill-disciplined.
They forced only small changes on Summerhill.
Who then are these “interfering and overindulgent parents”? When and where did they go to school to acquire such habits? Could it be they were children of the 1960s and products of, er, Summerhill? Let us hope Mrs Neill Redhead, as a former Summerhill pupil herself, has not acquired such tendencies.
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