Until recent years many Jesuits and some lay staff used the strap to punish certain kinds of misbehaviour – never more than six cuts per boy per day was the rule. Penals, a form of detention in which students were usually set lines to write, was another form of discipline. But for most student it is use of the strap that has made the deepest impression. On Bryan Lefebvre’s first day of school, for example, Father Craig came over to the classrooms to talk to the school.
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