Given my mothers attitude to corporal punishment , there may have been an element of self preservation here!
This was her first term and she probably didn’t know of the report forms. I , of course , said nothing at home.
Then the report came …..I held my breath. Need not have worried. The boxes hadn’t been filled in – any of them – a slip of the pen? As for comments , she wrote with masterly understament. ‘As for his conduct I have no worries.. Of course I have very occasionally reprimanded him , but he responds positively , and takes any disciplinary measures in his stride’. Thank you ! These words still are burned in my memory !