Scotch saw itself as training leaders. The disappearance of prefects’ power to impose caning was part of a wider...
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From 1961 the prefects discerned a new crime: General Attitude, or GA. In Australian law, a state of mind...
During the 1960s new ideas crept into the thinking even of the prefects. They punished boys for crimes...
Caning by staff ended in 1988 with the departure of Campbell Stewart (Year 8 Group Master 1984-88). On the...
Among the prefects, doubts grew. John McCaughey (1964) refused to be party to a caning, and Hamish Ewing (1967),...
A thoughtful Captain like David Mason (1966) believed that the Prefects’ Meeting would be accepted if ‘it functions with...
The prefects’ claim to rule boys’ lives outside school, and their savage punishment of ordinary social behaviour like smoking,...
In 1963 Scotch caned a fifth former (Year 11) for smoking away from the school and not in school...
Card-playing and gambling in general reached the same point as smoking: we can see that they happened because they...
“A welcome was also generously extended to the new Housemaster, Mr Thompson (‘Thommo’) who had his bed ‘short-sheeted plus...