We then had to find out the correct spelling and write the word out 5 times.) One of the two boys who been slippered for copying homework was among the 6 who were called out. As we were lining up behind Tab’s desk the boy in question showed his exercise book to the teacher and explained that he had done the corrections at the back of the book. Tab checked, found that it was so, and told the boy to sit down. The rest of us then stepped forward, one at a time, bent over and were duly slippered.