It is equally simplistic to parrot the term ‘mental health’,” he said. It is amongst the elite of British public-school institutions. “It is too juvenile to merely proclaim that Wycombe Abbey is a pressured academic institution. He has called on schools, including Wycombe Abbey, to consider the pastoral care of its pupils as much as their academic success. Mr Scott-Lee, a senior executive at HSBC, has spoken out about his loss in a drive to raise awareness over the needs of children who are neurodiverse. “She even spoke to her housemistress and asked for an upgrade to a ‘suspension’, despite the fact that it was a more severe punishment.” But Caitlyn seemed hyper-fixated on the concept of a detention, and it seems she was determined to do anything she could to avoid it. To some of us, it is a badge of honour, sitting in a room for two hours to work. Mr Scott-Lee, who has two younger daughters, said: “She was mortified to receive a detention. The issue had played on her mind throughout the Easter holidays.

Such was her concern over the detention she decided to run away from a prestigious choral event on March 21 at Eton College, where she had been due to sing. I want to kill myself tomorrow.”Ĭaitlyn also thanked some of her fellow pupils for their friendship and love and said goodbye as she wished them luck for the future. She wrote: “I hope this is my last diary entry. Mr Scott-Lee, 41, shared an extract from her diary with the publication on Thursday, April 20. She was facing detention as vodka and a tattoo kit was discovered in her music locker just before the Easter holidays.

Her father Jonathan Scott-Lee, in an interview with the Sunday Times, said that his daughter, who had been diagnosed with autism, had been dreading facing the “headmistress’s detention” and had “hyper-fixated” on the punishment. THE father of a teenage girl found dead at her boarding school has revealed that she took her own life the day before she had been due to sit in detention.Ĭaitlyn Scott-Lee, 16, was found dead in the grounds of Wycombe Abbey, a prestigious £44,000-a-year independent school for girls.

The dead i know by scot gardner