Rick Schubart: Phillips Exeter Academy Employee, New Hampshire

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  1. News Readers

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    Former Phillips Exeter Academy Employee Charged With Sexual Assault On Prospective Student

    Exeter Police have charged a former employee of Phillips Exeter Academy with two counts of sexual assault. Authorities say Arthur Peekel turned himself into authorities today. Investigators say he sexually assaulted a prospective student sometime in late 1973. According to an investigation by the Boston Globe, the victim said Peekel, who worked as an admissions officer at the elite prep school, told the then-14 year old to sleep in a cot next to his bed and then fondled him. The Globe investigation says the two spoke in a phone conversation recorded by police in North Carolina. Authorities say Peekel apologized ...


    This is the third case of sexual misconduct involving Phillips Exeter faculty or employees to surface this year. The school fired teacher Steve Lewis in April after he admitted having sexual encounters with a student several decades ago.


    History teacher Rick Schubart, who admitted to two instances of sexual misconduct with students, resigned in 2011, though he kept his emeritus status and was not banned from campus until 2015. Seacoast Online reports principal Lisa MacFarlane sent a letter to parents and alumni on Sunday, saying that the school was "shocked and angered" by the allegations and had turned the information about Peekel to Exeter police.


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    Exeter boarding school - whose alumni include Ulysses Grant, Rockefellers and even Mark Zuckerberg - says longtime history teacher has ADMITTED sexual misconduct with students

    31 March 2016

    • Rick Schubart admitted sexual misconduct with pupils in 1970s and 1980s
    • Taught history at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire for 38 years
    • The 70-year-old was forced to retire after first allegation emerged in 2011
    • He was stripped of emeritus status and banned from campus after second allegation in 2015
    • School did not disclose it publicly until Wednesday with a letter to alumni
    • Principal apologized and admitted school's response was insufficient

    A long-time teacher at an elite New Hampshire boarding school admitted to sexual misconduct with students in the 1970s and 1980s last year – but the school did not disclose the information until now. Rick Schubart, 70, was forced to retire and leave campus housing after Phillips Exeter Academy learned of the first report against him in 2011. After a second allegation surfaced in 2015, he was stripped of his emeritus status and banned from campus. But the school, which counts Ulysses Grant, Rockefellers and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg among its famous former students, didn’t inform its alumni until Wednesday ...


    Drama teacher Larry Bateman was arrested for charges of possession and distribution of child pornography in 1992. The school fired him immediately and during his trial, it emerged that he had secretly filmed students in bathrooms and bedrooms. He was later sentenced to five years in prison.


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    TMP, Sep 18, 2019
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