Fighting occupied a more serious category. Unlike talking or incomplete homework, it involved an immediate possibility of injury. It...
Running in school corridors appears almost comically minor when compared with fighting, stealing or truancy. Yet many schools prohibited...
Of all the offences appearing in the survey, talking must rank among the most ordinary. It was not normally...
The evidence considered over the previous chapters allows the disciplinary process to be reconstructed in broad outline. Not every...
At the opposite end of the disciplinary scale were offences which schools regarded as plainly serious. Truancy and theft...
An unusual punishment could sometimes have greater effect precisely because it was unusual. The 1959 account of a thirteen-year-old...
Every school possessed rules. But pupils also learned another set of rules—the practical rules of everyday school life. The...
The senior mistress appears prominently in several accounts and provides another example of the organisation of authority within grammar...
The deputy headmaster or deputy headmistress occupied an interesting position. Senior enough to possess considerable authority, the deputy could...
Warnings appear repeatedly in the survey and deserve consideration in their own right. They formed an intermediate stage between...
One difficulty in studying school discipline is that the name of an offence does not always reveal its seriousness....
The material examined so far permits a substantial provisional picture of school corporal punishment during the period covered by...