Not sure what Claydon did at MGS, but Moody(head from 1966-71) phoned parents as soon as he’d caned you. Bastard! Detentions were initially Saturday mornings only, so no problems swaggering in to school, telling your parents you’d got rugby practice or the like. Moody changed it to after school, so you now just told them […]

In the UK a slip was send to your parents if you got an after school detention, it was not intened to inform your parents, but it did do so, it was more to do with gaining your Parents consent, and would have given them a few days notice,without the consent of your parents the […]

That would be a no brainer here. The truth would out. That’s where matrices or as UK say tariffs apply. Different inpacts in the form of visible by marks or squirms. A parent should know whether the school is doing a good job enforcing the rules and administering justice. Secrets are a slippery slope. They […]

Given my mothers attitude to corporal punishment , there may have been an element of self preservation here! This was her first term and she probably didn’t know of the report forms. I , of course , said nothing at home. Then the report came …..I held my breath. Need not have worried. The boxes […]

At my school the report books yes they were ‘books’ so the reports were filed sequentially, contained a list of various staistical information including times late, days absent, detentions and , yes, school canings. They were in a row of boxes on the top line. They were supposed to vbe filled in by the deputy […]

The situation was similar at my school. Detentions were recorded and a slip was issued which had to be signed by a parent. The number of detentions were listed on your report . I still have a report listing one detention that year. Canings were listed in the punishment book , though not on your […]

At my secondary school, if you were awarded a detention, you were given a card to take home to inform your parents that you would be late home on the chosen day. Detentions were also listed on your end-of-term report, which was in the form of a book you kept throughout your school career. This […]

generally , on a percentage scale boys are about 15 points less likely to respond to non verbal cues as girls. FACT. But that doesn’t mean that boys don’t respond and girls don’t ….it just has an impact on the effectiveness of a certain type of ‘sanction’ in two communities. SOME boys respond as well […]

Once when being taught in class by Jackie , she turned to myself and my neighbor , who had been talking and inattentive and said ( ok she probably snapped at us ) ‘That’s your second warning : I’ll not warn you again!’ My neighbor was incensed and took his life in his hands and […]

The issue really has to be to isolate the populations who will be damaged by a given punitive regime. this is by its nature cross gender , even if unevenly so . Every time of course the answer comes back either this is idealistic , or that it is too expensive and resource intensive to […]