Teachers sometimes spoke of punishment not merely as a means of stopping misconduct but as a means of developing...
Many apparently different offences share one common element: disobedience. The pupil had been told what to do—or what not...
The survey contains several examples in which schoolwork itself became a disciplinary issue. These cases reveal the close relationship...
Academic dishonesty presented schools with a different problem. The offence did not necessarily disturb a lesson or endanger anybody....
Smoking provides another example of behaviour which schools regarded as serious, particularly among younger pupils. A respondent aged twelve...
Truancy was regarded considerably more seriously than ordinary classroom misbehaviour. The reason is obvious. The pupil had deliberately removed...
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...