As we approach Christmas after this most challenging of years, families are looking forward to a precious bit of downtime; some welcome — if short-lived — respite from the horrors of the pandemic. But for one family, the festive cheer will be somewhat muted. Will and Rachel Knowland, together with their five children ranging in … Read more
Eton College CLOSES due to outbreak of coronavirus with boys sent home from the prestigious private school as soon as possible and lessons moving online until after Christmas £42,500-a-year school’s headmaster Simon Henderson wrote a letter to parents Said ‘a large number of symptomatic boys and staff tested positive’ for the virus Mr Henderson said there … Read more
Harvard professor Steven Pinker WITHDRAWS support for dismissed Eton tutor after admitting he hadn’t watched controversial ‘gender roles’ lecture before defending him Harvard professor Steven Pinker has withdrawn his support for Will Knowland Psychology expert rushed to defence of dismissed Eton English tutor last month But he admitted he had not initially watched Mr Knowland’s … Read more
The sacking of an Eton tutor over a controversial lecture on ‘gender roles’ could jeopardise the school’s legal status as a charity, the Free Speech Union has warned. English teacher Will Knowland was dismissed for refusing to remove a video published on his YouTube channel that denounced ‘radical feminist orthodoxy’ – which was intended for the … Read more
Like all my football games at Eton, Simon Henderson’s time as headmaster started off okay but rapidly went downhill. I joined the school as a pupil at the same time as he started as head. My early impression of him was as an unremarkable but likeable headmaster, known chiefly for once mangling an anecdote about … Read more
Parents fight war of words over Eton headmaster’s culture change as critics are labelled ‘old, white men’ English teacher Will Knowland sacked over controversial lecture, sparking a row Head Master Simon Henderson has denied that he wanted to ‘shut down debate’ Students are ‘almost unanimously supportive of Simon’ says a student’s mother By Sarah Oliver … Read more
England rugby coach Eddie Jones was ’embarrassed’ in front of Eton pupils after teacher chastised him for saying ‘manliness’ when asked what attributes players need at event Eddie Jones, 60, was responding to a pupil’s question at the school in Berkshire Staff member said she thought it was ‘inappropriate word’, according to parent Meanwhile, another … Read more
‘Eton should take girls’: Education secretary Gavin Williamson says he would be ‘very much in favour’ of top public school taking ‘step forward’ by accepting female pupils Gavin Williamson said accepting girls would be ‘step forward’ for Eton College The prestigious public school has been boys only since its founding in 1440 Williamson’s comments come … Read more
Much of the attention on Will Knowland, the English teacher at Eton sacked for gross misconduct after he refused to remove a controversial video from his personal YouTube channel, has naturally centred around the source of his former employer’s displeasure. In a lecture entitled The Patriarchy Paradox, he questions ‘current radical feminist orthodoxy’ and rails … Read more
Recently, a false narrative has been circulating in the national – and even international – media about Eton. Someone might even say it was fake news. The narrative is that a teacher has been sacked for preparing a video lecture about radical feminist doctrines on gender which put forward an alternative viewpoint for discussion by … Read more