894646. Merchiston Castle School SCIS Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh | LinkedIn A spokeswoman said: In our experience we have seen the benefits of naming an alleged offender of a sexual offence as it allows other people whove witnessed this teachers behaviour and indeed other victims to come forward and inform police. I tried to get you to acknowledge that if we have faith we can not say such things when there are people around us who have some faith or no faith at all. 'That same sex parenting is inferior to, and is of less value, than heterosexual parenting and should be discouraged as it is harmful to children. Sponsored James. The school is the first overseas campus for the 185-year-old Merchiston Castle School. Merchiston School Film, Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh Two men have been charged in connection with allegations of historical abuse at one of Scotland's top independent schools. Read about our approach to external linking. ', By posting your comment you agree to the house rules, By By In his controversial memoir Spare, Harry admitted to regular drug-taking. Employee left baffled after boss was 'livid' he didn't give her his first class flight upgrade. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiryheard evidence that teachers at Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh, one of the country's most expensive private schools, mistreated the children. Fees for boarders can run to 29,000 a year and famous former pupils include Scotland rugby star Sam Hidalgo-Clyne. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. He said: 'I still hold the views expressed in the 'offending' video and I will continue to articulate these views regularly and publicly as I see fit. Humza Yousaf 'should be anti-nationalist choice' for First Minister - because he's so useless, The Majority reckons the health secretary will create a 'raging bin fire' for the SNP if he gets the keys to Bute House when the party votes on a new leader, Humza Yousaf's lawyer Aamer Anwar wades into same-sex marriage debate as statement defends missed vote, The human rights lawyer has released a statement from the family of Mohammad Asghar, who was placed on death row in Pakistan in January 2014 and whose case was discussed by the SNP leadership contender at a much-scrutinised meeting at Holyrood the following month, SNP blasted for 'dragging their heels' over dangerous cladding programme as they spend less than 1m of 97m funding pot. 'The important issue here is that this is the deliberate production of a fatherless child. The Met Office said next week will start with the coldest day of the year so far with temperatures dropping to near freezing in northern parts of the UK. This case is of concern to us as it appears that a person, clearly in a position of trust as a teacher, has breached their legal obligation to safeguard the young people they educate.. One of the pupils stated that you had to "accept there was a form of corruption" alongside the school behaving "in whatever manner pleased it" and that "staff did 'nothing whatsoever' to help pupils". On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title.