Let me remind you of how ‘good’ we really were. Remember the new Latin Master whom we reduced to a nervous wreck and who left. Well after his breakdown through our ‘circus’ that morning , I fully expected every one of us to be caned in the afternoon. But our deputy head ( in charge of conduct and academic progress) who you state was so ‘predictable’ , ‘predictably’ perhaps , did nothing. We were read the riot Act by the Head of Department.
I’ve a similar thing on my conscience, except ours was a new music master, and it only took one 40 minute period, after which he was never seen again. We didn’t even get read the riot act. I think the view of the school was that if he couldn’t hack it with us he stood no chance with some of the less academic forms and therefore shouldn’t have been there.