One particular instance of a prefect slippering was when one of the boys returned to the class in tears; he’d been given six for what we thought was a fairly trivial offence (I can’t remember now what it was). I also remember someone else describing how he’d had to bend over the back of a chair in the prefects room.
The right to use the slipper was later restricted to senior prefects, and it had died out completely when I became a prefect.
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