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| Wilsic Hall School |
| Inspector's Report 1989 |
| In 1989, Mr D Pepper, a leading figure in the Education Authority, visited Wilsic Hall School in Doncaster, to monitor it's progress and highlight potential areas of improvement. The report was delivered to the Education Board the following morning. Mr D Pepper was never seen again and the report was never published. Here, for the first time, is the report in full. "I had barely been in Wilsic Hall for ten minutes, when I witnessed the arm of a pupil being savagely broken by a member of staff. This proved to be my first taste of the unusual methods practiced in Wilsic Hall School in order to maintain discipline and maximise student potential. Wilsic Hall has a wide range of Students, differing in abilities and needs. 90% of the pupils are scrubber vandals - the kind of wanker who sets fire to cars, stabs their parents and sniffs Night Nurse. However, just for a bit of variety, the Education Authority also chucked in a couple of blind kids, a handful of total dribbling spazmos, and even a few quite bright and harmless children who had managed to piss off the authorities by not having an adequate pigeon hole in which to be placed in. Staff are positively encouraged to be brutal and aggressive in order to maintain discipline over these little bastards, even the blind ones and the ones who run away. During my short visit, I witnessed a couple of new pupils attending the school for the very first time and understandably, a little nervous. Their fears were quashed when a member of Care Staff informed them that if they didn't do as they were told then they would be pushed down a flight of stairs and their parents would be informed that they simply fell. This was fine, as every Authority in the land would believe the story of a trusted member of staff over a difficult, questioning kid who'd been sent to a shithole like this. Teaching methods are unusual but adequate. The staff clearly have no idea or grasp of what they are supposed to be teaching, so they are content to hand out books to pupils and order them to read for the entire duration of the lesson, whilst they read a newspaper or phone home to the missus. To their credit, the pupils, whilst unable to absorb any of the entirely inappropriate literature given to them, do a good job of stimulating their active minds in this unusual climate, by having fights and being extremely violent and aggressive to the small number of bright, harmless kids who should never have actually been sent here in a million years. The Headmaster does an excellent job, although most of efforts seem entirely based on furthering the career of his useless wife - she might be thick but, but by god, she's gonna be the Deputy Head one day. Still, the Headmaster's office does look and smell very nice, it's no problem that the kids are being served on a diet of shit and beans, at least the sofa in the Headmaster's Office looks very plush, and would impress any visiting Inspector. In conclusion then, this place is a total fucking disgrace and I recommend it stays open for at least the next 20 years. It's not as if any of the kids are going to die or anything. Wait a minute..... |
| Wilsic Hall School Wadworth, Doncaster |
| Salter 2005 |