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Probe as schoolgirls turn air blue with internet video
12:40am Thursday 7th February 2008
Comments (33)Girls at a £20,000 a year boarding school are under investigation for turning the air blue in an explicit classroom video posted on the internet.
The pupils, thought to be aged in their young teens, reel off a string of vulgar slang words and insult a female teacher who is not present.
One of the girls at the exclusive Burgess Hill School for Girls grins as she uses the teacher's name to refer to her private parts.
They then brag about posting the footage on the internet.
The video, entitled 'Life in the Classroom', also has the tagline 'This is life at break... Burgess Hill school break slutty girl play.' It is now in the hands of teachers after it was spotted on file-sharing website YouTube.
The school last night launched an investigation and alerted the girls' parents.
Ann Aughwane, headteacher, said: "We have sanctioned an investigation and are speaking to the girls' parents.
"This is a serious incident but the girls are really only guilty of immature nonsense. Their biggest error is a lack of judgement in posting this video onto the internet.
"The school regrets very much the implication that its reputation could be damaged as a result."
The 675-pupil independent school is the top-performing school in West Sussex with a 100 per cent pass rate in GCSE exams last year.
Parents pay up to £19,785 a year to send their daughters aged between two and 18 to the school in Keymer Road.
Mrs Aughwane said the video was shot at the end of the Christmas term when "spirits were high".
She added: "We have a policy of educating rather than banning when it comes to the internet and social networking websites.
"I now have some young girls who are fully aware of the dangers of these websites. "They are absolutely horrified at the thought their actions could have damaged the school.
"We are very disappointed in them and their behaviour has been wholly inappropriate. Any punishment will be decided in due course of the investigation."
The school, which stands in a 14-acre estate close to the centre of Burgess Hill, has established itself as a centre of excellence in music, sport, art and drama.
As well as boarding girls, day pupils are ferried in by coach from Lewes, Newick, Henfield, Worthing, Crawley, East Grinstead and Hove.
The footage posted on YouTube is not the first to have led to recriminations for school pupils.
In October last year an entire class of 16 and 17-year-olds were suspended from Central Sussex College, in Crawley, after they filmed themselves bullying a teacher and posted footage on YouTube.
Earlier that year, a clip showing teenagers from the college attempting martial arts moves on each other also appeared on the site.
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wysiwyg, Brighton says...
1:49am Thu 7 Feb 08
Google Me, says...
4:22am Thu 7 Feb 08
wysiwyg wrote:No, any company/school keen on what is being said about it on the web, just needs to set up a Google Alert - then google will e-mail you when it finds something new
So we now know there are kinky teachers looking at 'YouTube' - i think they should have kept quiet about it!
katy, brighton says...
7:36am Thu 7 Feb 08
Mr Chips, poised over Katy's post with a big red marker pen says...
9:35am Thu 7 Feb 08
katy wrote:I think you should have concentrated harder when you were at school. Must try harder.
i know a head teacher,who pretended to be a pupil on my space, so he could get a child expelled, when she said something that she did that was against school rules. yes these girls were wrong but, they are still girls, and will make mistakes, teachers posing as pupils is just too 1984
Dave Vernon's Monkey, trawling the internet for filth and stuff says...
9:51am Thu 7 Feb 08
Most disappointing and not what I was after at all.
Terry Tibbs, Office says...
9:51am Thu 7 Feb 08
Perhaps its the teachers or the mini bus driver that need a lesson in ettique.
Flat Foot Soozie, Brunswick Square says...
10:00am Thu 7 Feb 08
bored, of read rubbish says...
10:06am Thu 7 Feb 08
Flat Foot Soozie, Brunswick Square says...
10:15am Thu 7 Feb 08
bored wrote:It was not meant to be amusing. A statement of fact. You have no experience of Staff Rooms!
ffs- please stop posting comments that try so hard to be amusing, but generally fail miserably. Thank you.
flat foot soozie, brunswick says...
10:32am Thu 7 Feb 08
Flat Foot Soozie wrote:this never happend when i was at this school
I shouldn't be surprised if an undercover video of the Staff Room revealed all manner of outrageous language - and less than subtle flirtation as a preamble to a quickie in the stationery cupboard.
Flat Foot Soozie, Brunswick Square says...
10:35am Thu 7 Feb 08
flat foot soozie wrote:That's because you are not the real thing. Nobody would invite a mere imitation into the stationery cupboard.
Flat Foot Soozie wrote:this never happend when i was at this school
I shouldn't be surprised if an undercover video of the Staff Room revealed all manner of outrageous language - and less than subtle flirtation as a preamble to a quickie in the stationery cupboard.
Gary, Brighton says...
10:52am Thu 7 Feb 08
harry, brunswick square says...
10:57am Thu 7 Feb 08
Flat Foot Soozie wrote:stop it you complete bint you are not, clever bright, or indeed funny. just get lost in your internet cafe you bint
flat foot soozie wrote:That\'s because you are not the real thing. Nobody would invite a mere imitation into the stationery cupboard.Flat Foot Soozie wrote: I shouldn\'t be surprised if an undercover video of the Staff Room revealed all manner of outrageous language - and less than subtle flirtation as a preamble to a quickie in the stationery cupboard.this never happend when i was at this school
angela, brighton says...
11:01am Thu 7 Feb 08
flat foot soozie wrote:stop it flat head, your pathetic
Flat Foot Soozie wrote: I shouldn't be surprised if an undercover video of the Staff Room revealed all manner of outrageous language - and less than subtle flirtation as a preamble to a quickie in the stationery cupboard.this never happend when i was at this school
tommy, seaford says...
11:13am Thu 7 Feb 08
bored wrote:spot on bored, i to am fed up of her stupid rants
ffs- please stop posting comments that try so hard to be amusing, but generally fail miserably. Thank you.
dj, funkular says...
1:30pm Thu 7 Feb 08
Gary wrote:I agree it's nearly as interesting as the washing machine 'news' story yesterday
Ooh schoolkids swear and insult teachers behind their backs, what a shocker! Jesus I can't believe this is news.
Alfred Pubis, here says...
3:25pm Thu 7 Feb 08
MaryWhitehouse, hove says...
5:24pm Thu 7 Feb 08
They too will grow up and complain on fools forums such as these.
me, burgess hill says...
7:31pm Thu 7 Feb 08
Claude Back, Withdean says...
7:37pm Thu 7 Feb 08
angela wrote:Your pathetic what?
flat foot soozie wrote:stop it flat head, your patheticFlat Foot Soozie wrote: I shouldn't be surprised if an undercover video of the Staff Room revealed all manner of outrageous language - and less than subtle flirtation as a preamble to a quickie in the stationery cupboard.this never happend when i was at this school
Oh, did you mean YOU'RE?
I agree with you anyway.
YES, YES says...
9:22pm Thu 7 Feb 08
me wrote:did you know benazir bhutto stood up for human rights . she stood up to oppression. she stood up to dictatorship . i bet she wished she never stood up to **** wave ..
Ok, so there was a little bit of an indiscretion on the girls\\\' part- is it really major news? It goes on at every school, the fact that it is a private school is irrelevant. I can\\\'t believe it\\\'s even considered major news by The Sun now- supposedly as important as the Bhutto murder. Ridiculous.
"NOW THATS FUNNY "
yes yes? yes yes what?, says...
9:54pm Thu 7 Feb 08
YES wrote:what's funny? You? I disagree.
me wrote: Ok, so there was a little bit of an indiscretion on the girls\\\' part- is it really major news? It goes on at every school, the fact that it is a private school is irrelevant. I can\\\'t believe it\\\'s even considered major news by The Sun now- supposedly as important as the Bhutto murder. Ridiculous.did you know benazir bhutto stood up for human rights . she stood up to oppression. she stood up to dictatorship . i bet she wished she never stood up to **** wave .. "NOW THATS FUNNY "
Speaking the truth against the media, None of your beeswax! says...
4:56pm Fri 8 Feb 08
They have made it worse than it is, just because it is a private school and they are jealous. They have even cancelled our non school uniform day because of this! I haven't even seen the video, but it doens't matter!
Burgess Hill Uncovered Webmaster, Burgess Hill says...
6:51pm Fri 8 Feb 08
Speaking the truth against the media wrote:I am sorry to hear that you non-uniform day has been cancelled. Your school shouldn't be punishing the innocent ones.
This is stupid... I go to that school and I am shocked that this happened. They have made it worse than it is, just because it is a private school and they are jealous. They have even cancelled our non school uniform day because of this! I haven't even seen the video, but it doens't matter!
The media have made a big deal out of this as its rare to be able to take a swipe at a private school.
In fairness, all the video really did was show that not all privately educated girls are toffee-nosed!
You state you've not seen the video, that's what your headmistress would have been hoping, therefore you will not be aware that she has lied when she said no explicit language has been used. 'Fanjita' may not be, but 'P*ss Flaps' certainly is.
truthsetter, not telling says...
8:23pm Fri 8 Feb 08
the lightbulb, east grinstead says...
11:42pm Fri 8 Feb 08
Burgess Hill Bob, says...
1:20pm Sat 9 Feb 08
Dave Raeburn, Brighton says...
1:24pm Sat 9 Feb 08
Jon Hargreaves, Hurstpierpoint says...
3:16pm Sat 9 Feb 08
Burgess Hill Bob wrote:Burgess Hill Uncovered - a few hundred visitors. The Argus and The Sun have thousands. Who's humiliating the school more? There's no contest.
To set this straight, no, teachers were not "spying" on You Tube videos at all. The video was trawled by an unscrupulous local website owner who chose to not only paste it but to add further humiliation with unnecessary and unjustifiable comments about their education. Who should we REALLY be condemning here? The children who made a foolish and naive mistake or the adult (NOT a teacher) who actively used those children for his own warped self glorification?
Russell Brands Left Ballbag, Haywards Heath says...
4:27pm Sat 9 Feb 08
burgesshillschoolyay
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7:55pm Wed 13 Feb 08
Find Better News Stories, The universe says...
9:25pm Wed 13 Feb 08
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Yawn, Who cares says...
12:44am Thu 7 Feb 08