school punishments - name and shame

[freejam]

picking up on Windy's school theme

 

at senior school new kids had to go through the Mill - loads of older boys lined up with arms on a wall and the noob had to run through the Mill whilst being booted and whacked

 

funny how you felt proud when it was over - if you cried you got dragged to the Bars next

 

the Bars were iron railings around a basement window - the older boys would then bend your arms back through the bars - looked bloody painful

 

once accepted you were allowed to play Wall-Ball - bunch of boys throwing a tennis ball at a very high gable wall and scrambling to catch it (bit like Eton Fives, I guess)

 

the teachers were on the whole no better than the older boys, a bunch of psycho-thugs with regular canings, slippers, chair legs, climbing ropes, tuning fork on teeth being used to educate the boys - bl00dy Dickensian

 

the French master - Mr Hancock dapper and portly, smoked in class with an ivory cigarette holder - would insist you had the cane before allowing you to go to the lavatory - sitting learning French verbs whilst breaking your bladder never did seem a great way to learn another language

 

Mr Hancock would cane the same three boys everyday - on one occasion i had the temerity to ask why, "Just in case, they do something wrong boy", he slyly replied with grinning pleasure

[freejam]

oh - that was a cathartic experience - i feel a lot lighter

[abbe89]

In priamry school we had a teacher who threw chairs at us when he was mad!!

[hornsea flyer]

In primary i had a teacher who would go bright red and throw paper round the class then make us pick it up

[nobby]

mr howarth at my school had a classic - putting a dot in every other square of a bit of graph paper... he could see at a glance whether it was correct or not, if not you did it again, if it was ok it went straight in the bin..... someone twatted him eventually for throwing a board rubber at them.

 

that told the bugger

[princess fiona]

My biology teacher was my fave...was only young but used to sleep throughout the entire lesson with his head resting in his hands on his desk.

 

We just spent the lessons looking at the pictures in the facts of life books.

[Sparhawk]

someone twatted him eventually for throwing a board rubber at them.

 

that told the bugger

 

I sat my Geiography master on his árse for doing exactly the same thing.

 

5'2" eejit with no respect for anyone.

 

Cops got him in the end for what he was up to with the 5th formers

[dtb488]

My chemistry teacher's response to misbeahaving was chemical warfare. he had the advantage over us with knowing chemistry stuff - he used to make us inhale ammonia.

 

My woodwork teacher used to marked his initials in chalk on a metre rule and whack you across the ar*e with it. A shed load of kids with JFL tattoed on there school trousers. I still remember what the initials represent - but best not name and shame in case he is still alive!!

[No Fly Zone]

If anyone psst us off at school (usually someone who thought they were hard) we gave em the Tree Treatment - surround victim, one person at each arm and leg, walk towards tree feet first. It didn't get used many times, the reputation was enough !

[ride the wind]

i used to have crossing of of "e's" and other vowels from a sheets of the old(broadsheet) style Times

 

There was also space invaders with the juniors(either a tennis ball or if you where really annoyed a cricket ball)

[Catheh]

Never experienced violence in school from teachers anyway (I'm kinda young) But woodwork teacher once wrote on the chalkboard "Rearrange this sentace, "UP SHUT"." I thought that was kinda cool. rumor had it he was fired for smacking a student, when in truth he was looking after his dying wife, ******s. primary school teacher would bang his ruler on the desk to startle us all, and stare over his glasses when you'd been bad (Thinking about it, i think he was just long sighted) got all kinds of stuff thrown at me by other students, but nothing as bad as what you guys are on about!

[Sand-Yeti]

Corporal punishment was rife in the boy’s school I attended in London from 12 to 18.

 

 

There were the usual initiation ceremonies for the new boys & was applied mostly by the 2nd year boys which was pretty disgusting & involved a lot of toilet torture.

 

 

The Masters on the whole were quite sadistic bunch

 

e.g.

 

PT Master: PT was carried out wearing just shorts held up with elastic and plimsoles (pre-runner to tennis shoes). He had a nasty habit of pulling hard on the elastic & letting go so that it whacked hard against the body.

 

 

English Master: demanded absolute quiet all the time. Anyone so much as making a sound such as accidentally dropping something off of his desk was pummeled from just about every direction.

 

 

Physics Master: had a habit of sneaking up behind a boy & smacking him around the back of the head with his cupped hand.

 

 

Chemistry Master: had the canvas cut from a pair of plimsoles & the two soles stuck together. He would whack boys on the backside with it if he felt they had committed a misdemeanor. He also would trap & squeeze one’s fingers under the desk lid, which hurt like hell.

 

 

Religious Instruction Master: used to take a 12” wooden rule & hit you on the tips of the fingers from end on. That was very painful.

 

 

Maths Master: liked to chuck chalk at you & would occasionally throw the wooden backed blackboard eraser if he had it handy. I remember once the eraser coming straight for me . I ducked & so did the boy next to me . We cracked our heads together, which hurt. This pleased the master as he hurt two boys with one shot.

 

 

The Tech. Drawing Master used to throw anything that was at hand . I once had a box of drawing pins hit me in the head, burst open and shower all over the classroom. I also got the job of having to pick the whole lot up afterwards.

 

 

The headmaster used to conduct a humiliating punishment by dragging serious offenders in front of the whole school (300 boys), getting the PT Master to select a suitable cane from his office who would also administer the whacking mostly on the rear end but sometimes on the palms of the hands subject to the crime severity.

 

 

I never mentioned these beatings to my parents because they would only reply that I probably deserved it which looking back I probably did when I consider all the misdemeanors I carried out & didn’t get caught.

 

 

We did have non-corporal punishment activity, which was detention on a Wednesday night, which used to last for about 2 hours. During that time we had to write out passages from the Bible. I along with about 25 other boys used to regularly attend Wednesday night detention classes (I was always in trouble for talking - I still open my mouth too much today). I figured in the years I spent at the school I wrote the Bible.

 

What I know about the spiritual world would have made me a Bishop by now. Maybe I should have joined the holy orders & risen through the ranks to save people’s souls.

 

 

Looking back I don’t think corporal punishment was a bad thing except the sadistic type punishments were obviously wrong. If administered in formalized way maybe there is some value in getting some boys to behave & turn into useful persons rather than spoiled brats.

 

 

I know I will be shot down for this comment advocating controlled corporal punishment but I think if you ask anyone around my age who suffered corporal punishment at school, most of them will tell you that it didn’t do them any noticeable harm long term.

Sand-Yeti

[mind_my_pants]

Looking back I don’t think corporal punishment was a bad thing except the sadistic type punishments were obviously wrong. If administered in formalized way maybe there is some value in getting some boys to behave & turn into useful persons rather than spoiled brats.

 

 

 

I know I will be shot down for this comment advocating controlled corporal punishment but I think if you ask anyone around my age who suffered corporal punishment at school, most of them will tell you that it didn’t do them any noticeable harm long term.

Sand-Yeti

 

I think in a way I have to agree with you ... we had the cane, slipper and ruler thing you mentioned .. I luckily, never suffered anything worse than detentions but the whole thing, unless you were really 'hard' was a massive deterrant!

Thats what kids don't have anymore ... they know that no matter what they do they can and do get away with it.

[Crack]

ive had supply teachers through maths books about 2 inches thick across the classroom at a student

[FO Kite]

@Crack...........Pity you didn't have an English Teacher!

 

 

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[gigglefairy]

In priamry school we had a teacher who threw chairs at us when he was mad!!

 

In my class we have a child who does that! (I work in a special needs school so I guess it's kind of expected) Unfortunately he's a really good aim - we're lucky no-one's been hit yet...

[ebay women]

In primary if you kicked another kid you would have your shoes taken off you,and in secoundary if you forgot your homework you made to stand in the corner,that was my english teacher miss mcgreagor. Good old school days eh?

[Cornish Blade]

when i was in school,a couple of us held this lad out of a window whilst waiting for the teacher to arrive,then all we heard was "you two what you doing"we turned around put our hands up and said nothing sir but the screams gave it away,falling two stories into a prickely bush tended to have that effect.Got us all expelled,yep all three as it was the lads idea to hang out the window.Just to impress his girlfriend who was doing p.e outside but he never thought we would drop him thou,we told the teacher it was his fault,if only you hadn't shouted we would of not let How i miss those days ha ha ha:p