Duc_et_Pair
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There is no any school without bullying. No any.
In all social groupings angelic-faced kids test each other. And yes: kids can be cruel. So far nothing new under the sun.
Prince Nikolai was happy at Herlufsholm. Reportedly Prince Christian is happy at Herlufsholm and would prefer to stay there. That is not so strange. Already at young age children have a fine-tuned antenna for social hierarchy. The social hierarchy of parents outside school is very often mirrored inside school.
The "pack" instinctively knows that being in the circles of children with privileged parents does help their positionings. I can imagine that a Christian of Denmark, a William of Wales, a Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, a Elisabeth of Belgium, a Leonor of Spain were/are high "ranked" in their social cohesions at boarding school.
It seems that Herlufsholm, an excellent educational institution by all accounts, probably was less pro-active, less hands-on, less acting on bullying than it could have been. I would say: "Herlufsholm: learn from it and adapt your boarding school system to prevent bullying".
I see posts in which Herlufsholm should ban communal sleeping for private rooms. But at the same time communal sleeping can be formative. For an example for a certain boy who sleeps in Christian VIII's Palais or at Marselisborg Castle, it can be very formative to sleep with 12 boys in one room.
But lo! There is a Mary... The self proclaimed Jeanne d'Orléans of anti-bullying. And while her son is happy at Herlufsholm, I feel he is offered, pawned, to keep the shiny armour of this Maid of [-]Orléans[/-] Copenhagen spotless. And now the search has started, to a Walt Disney "guaranteed bully-free" school for the future King of Denmark. From rough pillow fights in the communal sleeping room, and setting wood in fire in a forest to sterile one-on-one über-surveilled rooms where perfectly natural and primal group processes are suppressed in an attempt to deliver a sort of model citizen to tick all the right boxes...
In all social groupings angelic-faced kids test each other. And yes: kids can be cruel. So far nothing new under the sun.
Prince Nikolai was happy at Herlufsholm. Reportedly Prince Christian is happy at Herlufsholm and would prefer to stay there. That is not so strange. Already at young age children have a fine-tuned antenna for social hierarchy. The social hierarchy of parents outside school is very often mirrored inside school.
The "pack" instinctively knows that being in the circles of children with privileged parents does help their positionings. I can imagine that a Christian of Denmark, a William of Wales, a Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, a Elisabeth of Belgium, a Leonor of Spain were/are high "ranked" in their social cohesions at boarding school.
It seems that Herlufsholm, an excellent educational institution by all accounts, probably was less pro-active, less hands-on, less acting on bullying than it could have been. I would say: "Herlufsholm: learn from it and adapt your boarding school system to prevent bullying".
I see posts in which Herlufsholm should ban communal sleeping for private rooms. But at the same time communal sleeping can be formative. For an example for a certain boy who sleeps in Christian VIII's Palais or at Marselisborg Castle, it can be very formative to sleep with 12 boys in one room.
But lo! There is a Mary... The self proclaimed Jeanne d'Orléans of anti-bullying. And while her son is happy at Herlufsholm, I feel he is offered, pawned, to keep the shiny armour of this Maid of [-]Orléans[/-] Copenhagen spotless. And now the search has started, to a Walt Disney "guaranteed bully-free" school for the future King of Denmark. From rough pillow fights in the communal sleeping room, and setting wood in fire in a forest to sterile one-on-one über-surveilled rooms where perfectly natural and primal group processes are suppressed in an attempt to deliver a sort of model citizen to tick all the right boxes...
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