As Latymer School's Ecstasy Scandal Hits Headlines

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Former Pupil Hugh Grant Displays Educated Benevolence

Latymer Upper School hit the headlines this week after four pupils, including the child of a senior member of the teaching staff, were expelled. The sixth form students were spotted handing out the class a drug ecstasy at their end of term ball held at Mayfair’s Equipe Anglaise night club.

Headteacher Peter Winter told the Standard, “They were not taking the drugs but they did plan to take them at a rave later. We asked the parents to withdraw their sons and daughters from the school and they accepted.”

Mr Winter stated that the member of staff, who also withdrew his child, was blameless and that there was no question of him leaving the school. He said, “It is clearly an embarrassment but it involved the child not the parent.”

The school, which charges fees of over £12,000 a year, has a strict anti-drugs policy and pupils found dealing are automatically expelled.

In a more palatable tale, former Latymer Upper pupil Hugh Grant displayed his benevolent side by endowing a scholarship to the school. From September 2007, he will fund one disadvantaged child’s education per year at the school he attended in the 70’s before he won a scholarship to New College, Oxford.

May 3, 2007