Corporal Punisment Memories School8

Anyway, at the time, I didn’t know all that much about schooling in England here in Victoria, we never really had anything much like the tripartite system operating. It was clear to me though, reading Farley, that the secondary modern schools were something quite different and distinct and as I started to study education more, moving towards higher qualifications, it was something I looked at a bit. And in doing so, I found Life in a Secondary Modern School by John Partridge. Partridge, like Farley, was teaching in secondary modern in the early 1960s, and like Farley looks at issues of social disadvantage in some of those schools, but where Farley was writing a primer as to how to discipline the students, Partridge decided to look at how one such school his functioned. His is a work of social science, examining as many aspects of that school as he could. And he devoted quite a bit of the book to discipline and punishment.