Public School condemns 'chav-hunt' spoof
class warfare | 14.08.2007 01:58 | Analysis | Education | Workers' Movements
One of Scotland's top public schools has condemned a video which showed ex-pupils staging a mock "chav hunt".
"Class Wars" was posted on the internet site YouTube by former students at Glenalmond College, near Perth.
The film, which showed teenagers wearing shell suits being chased by classmates dressed as aristocrats, was partly filmed on the school grounds.
Officials have described the spoof as "deeply offensive" and said it did not reflect the ethos at the school.
It began with one teenager in a baseball cap being pulled out of a river before being subjected to a simulated beating by a couple of tweed-wearing 'attackers'.
Another scene showed a shell suit wearing gang being chased through the school grounds by two young men dressed as huntsmen and on horseback.
They were shown being 'shot' as they ran across a field and one of the 'victims' was then prodded by an aristocrat as he lay on the ground.
The warden of Glenalmond College, Gordon Woods, said the film had been made by former pupils of the £23,000-a-year school.
He said: "I strongly disapprove of this video. The film, although clearly intended as satire, is immature and deeply offensive.
"We understand it was made almost two years ago and the pupils involved are no longer at Glenalmond.
"I must stress it does not reflect the ethos of Glenalmond or that of the present community of boys and girls studying here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6944534.stm
"Class Wars" was posted on the internet site YouTube by former students at Glenalmond College, near Perth.
The film, which showed teenagers wearing shell suits being chased by classmates dressed as aristocrats, was partly filmed on the school grounds.
Officials have described the spoof as "deeply offensive" and said it did not reflect the ethos at the school.
It began with one teenager in a baseball cap being pulled out of a river before being subjected to a simulated beating by a couple of tweed-wearing 'attackers'.
Another scene showed a shell suit wearing gang being chased through the school grounds by two young men dressed as huntsmen and on horseback.
They were shown being 'shot' as they ran across a field and one of the 'victims' was then prodded by an aristocrat as he lay on the ground.
The warden of Glenalmond College, Gordon Woods, said the film had been made by former pupils of the £23,000-a-year school.
He said: "I strongly disapprove of this video. The film, although clearly intended as satire, is immature and deeply offensive.
"We understand it was made almost two years ago and the pupils involved are no longer at Glenalmond.
"I must stress it does not reflect the ethos of Glenalmond or that of the present community of boys and girls studying here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6944534.stm
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Help The Rich Parasites
14.08.2007 07:48
So, it may be tempting to beat up a Glenalmond pupil or two, or to picket their fringe production next week. It is certainly worth writing to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator at
Charity Number: SC006123
Charity Name: Trinity College Glenalmond
Postcode: PH1 3RY
The charity's gross income in the last financial year.
Gross Income: £7,233,766.00
Charity Number: SC003191
Glenalmond Development Fund ( Appeal Fund )
Charity Number: SC006031
Charity Name: Friends Of Glenalmond
Danny
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Warden speak with forked tongue
14.08.2007 08:26
for propaganda purposes
bobby
altogether now..
14.08.2007 11:15
off with their heads off with their heads off with their heads
IT.s are ace
Sssh!
14.08.2007 16:20
Stude
Funny how
14.08.2007 16:34
laughing
No, let's not attack children Danny.
15.08.2007 11:17
Still, always nice to see someone prepared to beat up teenagers.
If a state school had done this, would you find it acceptable? The comments on here seem more concerned on focusing on the fact it was a private school than the actual video.
Those who went to private school include Tony Benn and the late Paul Foot. Are they deserving of a beating from Danny?
richard
Don't post drunk Richard
15.08.2007 21:42
Yup, I do, although that hardly excuses the video. If you reread though I recommended writing complaining about the charity status of the school instead of giving in to the temptation 'class warfare' may feel to beat up the kids. Sorry if I misinterpret 'Class warfare' there it isn't intentional.
>Still, always nice to see someone prepared to beat up teenagers.
Haven't done that since I was a teenager. Unlike you who admitted on IM attacking a teenage girl half your size and age last year. How did you put it ? 'All I did was pinch her cortoids'. Still, she wasn't middle-class like you claim to be so she probably deserved it. Smash the oiks eh ?
I have to say, nice to see you 'decloak' from your assumed pseudonymns for once. I hope someone else realises your american use of the word 'realize' betrays your army roots in Germany. Or how did you describe that - "I'm a member of an international brotherhood of ex-squaddies, ex-paras and ex-SAS".
But no, I won't be beating up Glenalmond pupils or recommending that, I will be challenging their charitable status. I can even say something nice about former Glenalmond pupils, they include the Cockburn brothers who are behind 'Counterpunch'. Of course you smeared 'Counterpunch' as 911 conspiraloons on the same level as Rense, don't you, so that won't impress you.
Danny
Double standards?
17.08.2007 10:49
As for the chavs sponsoring the toff's "decadent lifestyle", you are making the broad assumption that chavs actually pay tax - an assumption which is wrong. Chavs live on handouts. They are no better and no worse than your "tax-evading toffs".
You guys are not exaclty being impartial here, are you now?
Dr. D.