Corporal punishment in British schools varied considerably from one establishment to another. A punishment regarded as perfectly ordinary in...
One contributor recalled a somewhat comparable story from the 1950s. The account concerned a boy attending a primary school...
The question acquired a rather different significance during the political arguments surrounding corporal punishment in the 1980s. As pressure...
The proposal also illustrated a familiar difficulty in educational policy: what appears workable in a large town may be...
There is presently too little evidence to conclude that sending pupils to neighbouring schools for corporal punishment was ever...
There can be few institutions more characteristic of the traditional British school than the prefect. To generations of schoolboys,...
The principle behind the prefect system was simple enough. A school was regarded as a community in which its...
One former pupil recalls entering a grammar school in north-west London in 1961. During his first year, a boy...
A particularly detailed recollection comes from a former pupil who entered a Midlands boys’ school in 1954 after gaining...
Disciplinary cases were considered at a prefects’ court held on Wednesday mornings. Names accumulated in the prefects’ book during...
More serious sentences were not carried out during the court itself. The school provided a right of appeal to...
Contemporary studies suggest that such arrangements were by no means confined to a single school. Graham Kalton’s The Public Schools and...