School CP’s Little Secret25

No caning at my junior school, at least not for juniors.  The office of the joint headmaster of the...

  That the remove was not Georgina’s fault, and therefore that it was scarcely fair to visit the headmistress’s...

By this time there were four clear tracks of tears coming down Williams’s cheeks and he had his hands...

I recall one boy, let’s just call him William, was in Sixth Year Studies with me, i.e. we were...

And how many ‘missionaries’ from the UK just happened to find themselves working abroad in church schools. Schools where...

I was caned twice at my Wiltshire (English) senior school in the mid-eighties and my word it hurt. I...

“Prefects’ privileges were their room, their badge and their exemption from detentions and punishments. They also had the privilege...

”Biffer”, would have been a Dublin expression, I think. We always referred to it as the ”leather”, or sometimes...