First thing I’d be doing is ascertaining the full facts & background, instead of relying on the gutter media to tell me what happened. I wouldn’t automatically assume this is bullying, for example, because not all fisticuffs at school happen without provocation. If I found out I was dealing with unmitigated thuggery or ladettes trying […]

Yes it is amazing isn`t it that pass marks are so high! Potential Employers no longer believe the papers that youngsters present to them and often present their own test prior to any interview. Universities are also doing this for entry places. I would not want this to be a done thing.However, many past generations […]

The modern issue of disregard for authority has nothinG to do with Teachers or Schools. It is all in the upbringing. Spoilt Brats with no sense of adventure or work ethic is a big factor. There is a general attitude that “The World owes me a living and i don`t see why i should build […]

I saw a recent article in a newspaper saying that there had been around 50,000 school suspensions handed out and the teaching profession were asking for more assistance to deal with an increase in school misbehaviour. The teaching profession said that the increase can be attributed to an increase in psychological issues facing teenagers. Personally […]

It probably happened to me about 20 or so times, during my 3 years there and although it hurt a great deal. Unless one was going to undergo a metamorphisis and become the perfect child, there was no escaping it. To me it has always seemed the typical junior school punishment and i bet you […]

I can find nothing wrong in Alison’s posting,girls were certainly punished in that way in the infants, junior school and the first 2 or 3 years of senior school. In one of the junior schools i attended,a male teacher, in fact a rather nasty piece of work used to take great satisfaction from girlish tears […]

The system was that you had to stand up against the desk in that room, hands on the desk. The Deputy Headmistress would then pull a seat up, sitting down at your left so that she could inch your skirt up a little with her left hand and then slap with her right. She’d start […]

Leg slapping for girls was introduced at our school with the arrival of a new Deputy Headmistress who clearly had a penchant for such discipline. Back in the late sixties as this was, white knee socks were still obligatory for all except sixth form girls and with school skirts at the time becoming ever shorter, […]

Don’t know about any other FR references but my male teacher at primary school was prone to slap and ruler girls legs during the lesson. There is a reference in FR for this School by a girl who got her legs rulered as late as the 80s, I can’t identify as it was my school. […]

The Misbourne School 1973 – Various Added by Gail H. I have read and laughed at some of the memories you lot have put here. Pete J., good call, mate! And the glass eye memory, brilliant. Mr Fahy, used to give us fags and we’d trundle off to the loos. Number 6, I think. Mrs […]