In my first year at junior school, I was once asked by my class teacher to keep an eye on one of the boys at break time (this teacher was on playground duty that day). This particular boy was one who always seemed to get into trouble, and was always being punished. As it happened, there was some sort of problem when the whistle went for the end of break; perhaps the boy didn’t get into line before going back to the classroom, I can’t remember. Anyway, one of the monitors reported us, and we both had to see the teacher before the start of the next lesson.
I wasn’t sure what was going to happen to us; this was the teacher I’ve mentioned before who used the slipper regularly. But when we got to the front of the queue, she said to the monitor “I know about these two” and we were allowed back to our seats.