One particularly interesting recollection dates back to a conversation in the 1960s. A young woman working in Edinburgh was...
One former pupil who attended a mixed secondary school during the late 1960s and early 1970s remembered two PE...
Another former pupil recalled coming across an internet discussion in which people were reminiscing about an unusual teacher from...
The Alabama prom affair attracted attention because it seemed so unusual. Yet beneath the sensational headlines was a much...
There are few occasions in a young person’s school life quite like the end-of-year dance. The dresses are chosen...
Dress regulations have always been capable of producing arguments. Every generation of adults appears to believe that the younger...
Perhaps the most striking feature of the affair was not simply that corporal punishment was available. It was that...
There was, however, another side to the argument. Can something truly be described as a free choice when both...
Supporters of stricter discipline saw matters differently. Their argument was simple enough. Rules had been published. Pupils knew those...
For British readers, the story also highlighted considerable cultural differences. The American high-school prom had no precise equivalent in...
Ask a group of adults about their schooldays and it soon becomes obvious that there was never one universal...
To understand old-fashioned school discipline, we have to resist the temptation to view the past entirely through modern eyes....