It is quite certain that a measure of cruelty characterized the school, as indeed it probably did in very many,prep-schools of the Edwardian era and before.
Beating boys was as natural as morning turning to night.
Even ‘progressive’ schools would beat the boys, albeit in a spirit of joviality, as was the case in Peregrine Worsthorne’s prep school.
Edwardian Prep School Canings19
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