If you complain say that their precious little darlings have been chucking half bricks at people in the park they promise to “mention it at assembly”.
Meanwhile, the up-to-their-ears-in-debt School Run crowd are busy reversing up folks’ driveways, sticking 2 fingers up at the bus line folks, and sleeping all afternoon in their cars waiting for 3.30 pm whilst double parked.
Edwardian Prep School Canings14
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Corporal Punishment & The Cricket Bat 14
Some time ago I came across an item on the web where in a local area Forum former pupils...
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Was the Pain of Corporal Punishment a Deterant25
Whether someone says “it’s not fair” is an empirical fact, and has nothing to do with social conditioning. Whether...
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School Discipline References21
My mountaineering experience is just about confined to a couple of trips up Ben Lomond, once with my Dumbarton...
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A Trip to the Head21
Suddenly the hand was gone and my bottom tingled and felt naked and alone. I heard the dull “whack”...
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Corporal Punishment in Mixed Secondary Modern20
Scotland has always had a much more rigorous educational tradition than England, and one which, even in poorer and...
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School Corporal Punishment History114
Corporal punishment had been used sparingly in the first few years of St Bede’s. The seniors in their tiny...
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Slippered at School19
And then of course, there were PE teachers who would pick boys out at random and give them between...
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Corporal Punishment & Slipper Sizes9
I remember the senior housemaster more than once actually showing the slipper to prospective parents, as evidence of the...