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...court seemed little impressed with such rebuttals. Copping and Reynolds had "exercised a baleful, destroying influence on the white souls of the children," it ruled. Then it ordered all students "removed to a place of safety," in effect, closing Horsley Hall. Said Copping, who promised to appeal the decision: "You'll hear from us again...
...small school (24 pupils), Britain's ultra-progressive, coed Horsley Hall in Eccleshall, Staffordshire, had had its share of the headlines. When a whipping-cane maker lectured at Horsley last fall, teen-age pupils grabbed him and flogged him with one of his own canes (TIME, Dec. 6). Later, Headmaster Robert Copping hit the news by announcing that he was founding a children's union to protect British kids everywhere from their reactionary elders. Last week, bearded Robert Copping was a headline again as a stream of shocked witnesses in the Eccleshall magistrates' court told just...
From Copping's point of view, the whole case, which had been started on the complaint of a former Horsley Hall maintenance worker, was "preposterous." Though admitting that his pupils could visit in each other's bedrooms any time, he denied that at Horsley this led to sex relations, "not if they have been with us for more than a few weeks." Argued Copping's lawyer: "One of the most astonishing features in the case is that not a single parent has been called [by the prosecutor] to say they are dissatisfied with the way the children...
...them. It was a great day for the kids on the platform and for the handful down front listening: they were beginning a worldwide children's crusade, and they had nothing to lose but their chains. Their leader: bachelor Headmaster Robert Copping of Britain's ultra-progressive Horsley Hall...
Bearded Headmaster Copping had already declared war on discipline of the young by their elders. He won a skirmish when Eric Wildman, a maker of whipping canes and head of Britain's Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment, went up to Horsley Hall to lecture: Copping's students seized Caneman Wildman and flogged him with his own rods (TIME, Dec. 6). But 28-year-old Robert Copping had lots of other ideas for battles on a wider front...