I can verify that as some lifelong friends sent several children to
Greenfields.
Under Margaret Hodkin the school was excellent. She was an educator by training and IIRC a former headmistress, and clearly following her dream. Met her, wonderful lady.
There were I heard around 200 students back then.
She seriously regrets, I heard, that she allowed a CO$ body to take over
the school.
And on another rumour line that she dosn't want to be associated with CO$.
One of these children was dyslexic. Greenfields refused to recognise that as a condition or do anything about it. Epic fail!!
However parent power did, and the child concerned has recently graduated university.
One child was pulled into a multi hour recruit for the SO and didn't know if he'd see his parents again. Traumatic!
The family was very worried they'd be expell declared if one of the parents was let off the leash!
Many scientologists wouldn't let kids go there because of possible declares erc.
I like study tech and word clearing etc.
However young people need inspiration.
This it seems is missing from greenfields now.
I'd like to put the record straight, Margaret Hodkin & Mark McQuade started the school, unfortunetly I helped out. I was Margaret's Secretary & all. The school started with 35 children & in a year doubled in size. Margaret then purchased the Forest Row place.
What went on in Greenfields was a disgrace, from the begining. Mark Kent was Margarets blue eyed boy, I could see what was going on & mentioned it to various people, but they were blind to the fact that he was a abusing the children. I left because of what was going on, i just had a gut feeling about it all. 5 years after I left, the story hit the newspapers & I was right about him, in the past I had spoken to Margaret & John Taylor at St. Hill, but was anything done, No, it was all brushed under the carpet. I was just a low level PC so no noticed was taken of what I said.
Mark McQuade used to scream & shout at the children, like a nutcase & started a relationship with my daughter Mandy, while she was a student. This was totally unaceptable to me & my now deceased husband. I spoke to Margaret Hodkin, she saw no wrong in Mcquade & that it wasnt a problem about their relationship.
Myself, Ros Bisby, my husband asked Mcquade to come round & discuss that this was not acceptable, he came & stayed till the early hours of the morning, during this time we tried to get him to see that a relationship with a student was not OKl, eventually he said that he wouldnt see Mandy untill she was 18 & had left school.
When Mandy was 18 yrs old, he openly went out with Mandy, she left home & within a week of leaving, she moved in with McQuade. She stayed with him for 2 years & omg did she go down, he had totally control over her. To get out of the relationship Mandy joined the Sea Org & later met Chaz Kember.
In 1982 at Greenfields a number of children had to leave the school as their parent had been declared. This was very upsetting as the children had done no wrong.
This is just so of the things that went on when Margaret Hodkin was in charge, it was later that the Org got more control of the school. Greenfields was always a recruitment centre for the Sea Org. So as for your comment that Greenfields was excellent under Margaret Hodkin, I would say that it wasnt, they had there own laws & sod everyone else, very much to how an Org is run. I regret ever working there.
So for her to say Greenfields was worse when CofS took over, it wasnt, all the gross things that occured at Greenfields were when she was in charge. It just became an org later when she left or was taken off the post.