Talk:Rutlish School

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[edit] John Major's Status as an 'Old Rut'

I was a pupil at Rutlish from 1986-1990. When John Major became Chancellor, an urban legend began to circulate within the school that that the then headmaster, Tony Mooney, approached Major and asked him to appear at the school's annual speech night. Major's response was that his time at Rutlish was among the most unhappy years of his life, and that if he ever became education secretary, he'd close the school down. I don't have any evidence to verify this: all I can say is that at the time, I heard teachers talking openly about the incident.