The extracts from the Birmingham punishment book are fascinating, but I wonder whether they give a misleading impression of...
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This unknown school is certainly a primary. It is possible it was a very small school, perhaps one class for...
I am pretty sure Birmingham’s state schools required record keeping of all instances of CP, and that this requirement...
I assume it is a primary school. Even so the numbers seem very low by 1950s/1960s standards. There is...
There was also a high proportion of “dirty behaviour”. All offenders were boys, and usually in the lavatory, so...
Third: sexism. being a co-ed school, I would assume the ratio of boys to girls would be pretty close...
There are several interesting observations that come from this. First: The method of punishment. I was once in possession...
I don’t know what it is about Birmingham and me, but I do keep coming in possession of punishment...
One interesting feature here in Victoria is that some schools – especially Catholic schools for some reason in my...
Growing up Catholic in America. Had only I been more aware of the birds and the bees. Sister Mary...