Talk:Rutlish School

Neville Heath and Rutlish

Neville Heath was mentioned as an old boy when I was at school, although by then (late 50's) the details of his crime were not well enough remembered for salacious gossip. Others also have him down as a Rutlishian ("Villains' paradise": a history of Britain's underworld By Donald Thomas). I have tentatively added him back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ThePopes (talk • contribs) 20:39, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

John Major's Status as an 'Old Rut'

I was a pupil at Rutlish from 1986-1990. When John Major became Chancellor, an urban legend began to circulate within the school that that the then headmaster, Tony Mooney, approached Major and asked him to appear at the school's annual speech night. Major's response was that his time at Rutlish was among the most unhappy years of his life, and that if he ever became education secretary, he'd close the school down. I don't have any evidence to verify this: all I can say is that at the time, I heard teachers talking openly about the incident.

article quality

This article may lack verifying sources but it is very accurate and very good. I was at Rutlish too (1972-77) and so I have some personal experience. Incidentally there was also a school cap and even a school boater a bit before my time.

I was a pupil at the school in the 1970s and there is an error in the article. The transitus common room was indeed located on the ground floor of the main block, but the sixth form one was on the first floor of the Manor House. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:F088:601:F1DC:356E:EB0B:CE59 (talk) 20:54, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Neville Heath was unlikely to have been an old boy

I see that Neville Heath has once again added and removed as an old boy of Rutlish. I previously removed him back in 2006 when it was also incorrectly claimed he was the "Brides in the Bath" murderer (actually George Joseph Smith). At the time I couldn't find any evidence that Heath went to Rutlish (he was born in Ilford) so deleted the entry. As a former pupil of Rutlish, I remember no mention of Heath as a old boy, which I'm sure would have been a topic of salacious and scandalous discussion had he been.--DavidCane (talk) 10:32, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

No young freaks

"Single-sex boys" conjured up some wondering about other kinds.--SilasW (talk) 14:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Year names

In the 1990s when I was there you arrived to be in the "2nd year". Then went through 3rd 4th and 5th years until possibly going to 6th form. There were no names for the years as mentioned here. Perhaps they were used in previous decades? Subsequently the National Curriculum years started to be used more, even more so when Merton changed back to a two tier system and the 6th form was lost. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbuller (talk • contribs) 22:28, 16 July 2011 (UTC)