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Comment #3281

2024-05-23T05:54:44Z

I'm afraid I can't help you, Lynda; all I know is what I read in this book, which was very positive about the school, students, and staff. If commenter Bruce Kohfield (whom I don't know) stops by here again, perhaps he can enlighten you further. I suppose your father and grandfather are no longer around to ask? Otherwise, I would guess that Google might be your best friend here: If there was widespread abuse there, someone is certain to have written about it, somewhere.

Comment #3280

2024-05-23T01:11:53Z

My father and grandfather both went to Chefoo they never mentioned abuse

I would like to learn more about this

Comment #3279

2021-07-08T14:15:52Z

I'm not opposed to physical punishment in principle, but cannot fathom how anyone could imagine a beating would stop someone from wetting the bed. It reminds me of a friend who reported to her pastor that people kept telling her that if she only had enough faith, she wouldn't need a cane. His response? "The next time someone says that to you, whack him over the head with your cane and tell him that if he had enough faith his head wouldn't hurt."

I am, however, opposed to boarding schools. I know there are many who disagree with me, but isolating children away from their families is a fertile breeding ground for terrible abuse by the adults—and children—in authority.

Comment #3278

2021-07-08T09:03:03Z

The beatings were daily with a bamboo cane. I was even taken to a doctor to see if they could still came my bottom it was so badly damaged from canning. T he doctor-Dr. Hoyt-have them permission to continue the bearings. Why did they beat me? because I was so stressed out I started to wet my bed at least every. Other day. Every time it happened (every other day) I was sent to master Harrison who was about 6’ 2” and. 250 lbsand he would make me grab the bottom run of a chair and beat me 6 times as hard as he could

Comment #3277

2021-02-23T17:43:59Z

Thanks for the comment, Bruce. Are you referring to the brutality inflicted by the Japanese invaders, or something that occurred at the mission school itself before the war?

Comment #3276

2021-02-23T16:28:21Z

The brutality at Chefoo Schools has never been told. I was there and beatings with a bamboo cane was a daily occurance at Chefoo. The abuse has been deliberately buried.

Comment #3275

2012-01-03T22:20:31Z

He really liked God's Smuggler. And we saw an biographical documentary on Eric Liddell's life recently, so he's familiar with part of the story. I bet he would like the book.