As too did Alice Thomson of The Times who broke this story on Saturday – which explains why she was in a position to know all about the Cameron’s Nepalese nanny.
In 1968 Marlborough was one of the first of the traditional boys' boarding schools to admit girls into the Sixth Form. The Good Schools Guide is quoted as saying that the school attracts ‘robust’ girls who won’t be put down easily.
I can remember watching a BBC tv documentary on the subject of girls at Marlborough, though that must have been much later, possibly when the school became co-educational for all ages, not just the 16 to 18 year olds in the sixth form. It was like watching explorers circling round, suspicious of a previously unknown species.
I don’t remember any boy yanking off a girl’s games skirt ‘for a dare’ however, which is something mentioned by Alice Thomson.
Primary school might have been different, but I cannot imagine any boy ever doing that at any of the (thoroughly co-educational) secondary schools which I went to. It would just have seemed much too childish & silly a thing for a sophisticated teenager to do.
The success of Marlborough girls may help to bring about a change in the idea that single sex schools produce better results, make girls better prepared for working in a world containing men. And vice versa.
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