“On the staff for fewer years than Peter Hall but recalled vividly by former students was Paddy Wright. Paddy had come to St Kevin’s after teaching at Trinity Grammar School. He immediately struck his colleagues as a dedicated teacher and managed to communicate his enthusiasm to students through, or perhaps in spite of, his often eccentric techniques. Students faced the return of essays from Paddy with some trepidation. His method of communicating displeasure at a piece of work was to draw a tombstone at the top of the essay. A returned essay with the dreaded tombstone symbol meant that the author was headed for punishment through the strap.
School Corporal Punishment History103
Related Articles
-
School Corporal Punishment History35
In the 1920s Edmunds taught writing to the Junior School with ‘a bunch of keys with which he...
-
Bullying & Corporal Punishment3
You might think that intimidation and harassment is just how kids play around, but these behaviors have very real...
-
Corporal Punishment Comparing Impliments16
The Junior Cane was always used for hand caning, Very whippy and it did indeed jangle your bones. Heavier...
-
Corporal Punishment in Mixed Secondary Modern2
Their tedious denial of the truth, boosted by the tedious fantasies of other ex-public-school boys, masks one fact- it...
-
And when we got there the Cupboard was Bare7
Most of these types of punishment are characterized by the imposition and negative reinforcement of the power relation between...
-
Why Mikey Likes Eating At Home21
The two girls from the other table were about Mikey’s age, one a little older, the other a little...
-
Spanking Games25
The dorm had a large cement/tile porch around three sides of it where we would play. When a “child”...
-
Varieties of Cane1
I have seen elsewhere references to junior and senior canes. Is this just the stuff of flagellant literature, or...