Phillips Exeter Academy

schoolIndependent, day school,boarding school

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Motto	Non Sibi (Not for self)
Formation	1781
Headquarters	New Hampshire
Type	Independent, day school,boarding school
A very large number of CIA and deep state operatives have attended this school.

Phillips Exeter Academy is a highly selective, coeducational independent school for boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12, and offers a secondary postgraduate program. Located in Exeter, New Hampshire, it is one of the oldest secondary schools in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world.

Phillips Exeter Academy has educated several generations of the New England establishment and prominent American politicians. A very large number of CIA and deep state operatives have attended this school.

Sexual abuse

Exeter has struggled to deal effectively with multiple incidents in which students were sexually abused by faculty and staff.

An incident of sexual misconduct that occurred in the basement of the church in late 2015 first brought criticism to the school. A more in-depth investigation by an outside law firm uncovered sexual misconduct that occurred at Exeter since the 1970s and involved at least 11 members of the faculty and staff. The report harshly criticized the school for not supporting the victims when they reported the incidents and for a pattern of not including these allegations in the faculty members' files. In April 2016, Exeter hired a law firm of Holland & Knight LLP to investigate allegations of past misconduct by Exeter faculty and staff. A report was released in August 2018 providing an overview of the investigation and the findings of Holland & Knight LLP.

Through this process, Holland & Knight was assigned and completed 28 investigations. Of those 28 matters, 26 involved reported misconduct of a sexual nature by an Exeter faculty or staff member towards an Exeter student occurring at various points spanning from the 1950s to the 2010s. During the course of these 28 investigations, Holland & Knight conducted approximately 294 interviews of over 170 individuals. The persons interviewed were located in various states, as well as in multiple countries. According to the findings, the school maintained two sets of files, and would keep the more sensitive material away from Human Resources and prospective employers. Some of these faculty members would then leave Exeter but get hired at peer schools. In at least one case, the teacher then molested students at his next school. The allegations involve staffers who have since been fired, left the school or have died. Several have been named in the past by the school. In a letter, Exeter officials apologized to the school community, including victims who have come forward and those who have remained silent.

In 1992, a drama teacher was indicted on federal child-pornography charges after police raided his home. It took five officers six hours to cart away 650 videos, picture books and photographs from the apartment of Larry Lane Bateman, who had taught at Exeter since 1980. According to court papers, Bateman's tapes feature at least one former Exeter student, along with shots of a pupil Bate man taught at a Glen Head, N.Y., school in 1979. His school-owned apartment on the edge of the campus contained "state-of-the-art facilities: five video cameras, editing equipment, a metal box of paraphernalia and a case of lubricant."