Mrs Seaton passed me a box of tissues and I took one and tried to dry my eyes. She warned me to behave myself in future and told me that if I didn’t like the cane from her I would like it a lot less from the headmaster.
As I walked unsteadily from her room I resolved never to get the cane again.
When I was 11 I moved up to a co-educational grammar school. Minor instances of misbehaviour in the classroom were punished by the boy or girl concerned being sent out of the class into the corridor. After a few minutes the teacher would generally let you back into the class.
