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Having the stick/dap in school
What was the most petty 'crime' you committed in school for which you received the stick/dap or the like ?
For me it was only getting 15 out of 20 questions right in an ad hoc geography test. The teacher told us anyone getting less than 17 would get the stick and he was true to his word.
Secondly, me and a schoolmate committed the heinous crime of running down a school corridor to get to the next lesson.
Life was brutal then !
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Mr Angle(real name!) my geometry teacher had a hell of a swing on him when he was giving out the dap. Had it a few times off him, probably for not listening. Bloody hurt.
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Moodybluebird
What was the most petty 'crime' you committed in school for which you received the stick/dap or the like ?
For me it was only getting 15 out of 20 questions right in an ad hoc geography test. The teacher told us anyone getting less than 17 would get the stick and he was true to his word.
Secondly, me and a schoolmate committed the heinous crime of running down a school corridor to get to the next lesson.
Life was brutal then !
That teacher would get 12 months behind bars at least in our current insane society
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Stealing 70p from the church congregation collection, the school was attached to the church. Pinching a box of smiths crisps from the tuck shock stock room. Climbing on the school roof and pinching an almost brand new Adidas Tango football. Putting a grass snake in Lisa roberts draw. Bringing a baby crow to school and hiding him in the toilets. And that was just junior school. In high school i was caned twice, in my first year, it was banned for the second year, my crimes were pea shooting the French Teacher, proper shot, right between the eyes, it didn't help when she pretended to be concussed :hehe: The other incident was for fighting in Woodwork. Suspended countless times, thrown out at fifteen. I was a disaster in school.
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We had a sadistic load of Brothers (failed priests), pretending to be teachers in St Illtyds.
One, Brother Luke, would walk up and down between the desks and if you were doing a sum wrong, would lash the back of your hand with a leather strap.
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BLUETIT
We had a sadistic load of Brothers (failed priests), pretending to be teachers in St Illtyds.
One, Brother Luke, would walk up and down between the desks and if you were doing a sum wrong, would lash the back of your hand with a leather strap.
I was taught by Nuns. ****ing horrible *****.
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Tuerto
I was taught by Nuns. ****ing horrible *****.
I've never seen a Nun's ****, to know if it's horrible or not :hehe::hehe:
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BLUETIT
I've never seen a Nun's ****, to know if it's horrible or not :hehe::hehe:
Probably dry and crusty, like them.
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I got the cane for booing the dinner lady:hehe:
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Pearcey3
I got the cane for booing the dinner lady:hehe:
Dinner ladies were a bit nasty, so i'm with you on that one. Usually a pupils mum or Auntie, preferential treatment when the desert was dished out.
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Pearcey3
I got the cane for booing the dinner lady:hehe:
Did you really frighten her ?
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Pearcey3
I got the cane for booing the dinner lady:hehe:
Was the food that bad,a complaint would have been better :biggrin:
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I once got 'booked' in the Air Cadets for breaking wind when everyone was saluting a photo of the Queen.
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Tuerto
Stealing 70p from the church congregation collection, the school was attached to the church. Pinching a box of smiths crisps from the tuck shock stock room. Climbing on the school roof and pinching an almost brand new Adidas Tango football. Putting a grass snake in Lisa roberts draw. Bringing a baby crow to school and hiding him in the toilets. And that was just junior school. In high school i was caned twice, in my first year, it was banned for the second year, my crimes were pea shooting the French Teacher, proper shot, right between the eyes, it didn't help when she pretended to be concussed :hehe: The other incident was for fighting in Woodwork. Suspended countless times, thrown out at fifteen. I was a disaster in school.
Definitely not the Messiah, you were a very naughty boy !
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Moodybluebird
Definitely not the Messiah, you were a very naughty boy !
I was. Obviously something not right with me, disruptive and didn't really understand rules. I'd be diagnosed with something now, i was a little bastard.
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Amazing to think nowadays that we were caned in junior school aged 7-11. Caned on numerous occasions in senior school but the open handed slap on the arse by Frank Callus was, looking back, the most perverted punishment. Callus was a horror and bully of the highest order meting out his trademark punishment for things such as talking on the stairs or walking down on the right hand side instead of the left hand side!!!!
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Tuerto
Dinner ladies were a bit nasty, so i'm with you on that one. Usually a pupils mum or Auntie, preferential treatment when the desert was dished out.
Dinner ladies were scary. We had the classic 18 stone one with one eye, could never tell who she was looking at when shouting which only made her more angry. She had a permanently beetroot face
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Amazing to think nowadays that we were caned in junior school aged 7-11. Caned on numerous occasions in senior school but the open handed slap on the arse by Frank Callus was, looking back, the most perverted punishment. Callus was a horror and bully of the highest order meting out his trademark punishment for things such as talking on the stairs or walking down on the right hand side instead of the left hand side!!!!
He was my form tutor at Lliswerry High in Newport.
Horrible fooker, used to pick you up by the ear.
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Never got the dap or cane but did once get punched on the shoulder by the Chemistry teacher when I didn't hear him come inat the start of the lesson. Didn't help later in the same lesson when I broke one of the new bits of expensive glass tubes when I wound the clamp too hard!! Luckily he just gave a verbal blasting that time.
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He was my form tutor at Lliswerry High in Newport.
Horrible fooker, used to pick you up by the ear.
I thought he was just St Peter’s & Lady Mary.
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splott parker
Amazing to think nowadays that we were caned in junior school aged 7-11. Caned on numerous occasions in senior school but the open handed slap on the arse by Frank Callus was, looking back, the most perverted punishment. Callus was a horror and bully of the highest order meting out his trademark punishment for things such as talking on the stairs or walking down on the right hand side instead of the left hand side!!!!
That's a name I haven't heard for many moons. My mates went to Lady Mary and they told me he was a bit of a beast.
We had our own version in Llanrumney High. His name was Gary Reid and he was hard bast**d. You could put up with the cane from most of the teachers but you did not want to be sent to Gary.
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I remember all the boys in our class had the cane after our form teacher ran out of the class crying. Someone chalked on the blackboard `Miss Owen is a Lesbian' Turns out it was one of the girls.
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splott parker
Amazing to think nowadays that we were caned in junior school aged 7-11. Caned on numerous occasions in senior school but the open handed slap on the arse by Frank Callus was, looking back, the most perverted punishment. Callus was a horror and bully of the highest order meting out his trademark punishment for things such as talking on the stairs or walking down on the right hand side instead of the left hand side!!!!
I can recall having the cane at 5 or 6 in the old South Church Street school down the docks
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did nothing and got a titty twister that left a huge bruise....phuck you mr williams.
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splott parker
I thought he was just St Peter’s & Lady Mary.
He was in Lliswerry I guess around 84/85
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Wash DC Blue
He was in Lliswerry I guess around 84/85
Aw, that’s way after my time.
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splott parker
Amazing to think nowadays that we were caned in junior school aged 7-11. Caned on numerous occasions in senior school but the open handed slap on the arse by Frank Callus was, looking back, the most perverted punishment. Callus was a horror and bully of the highest order meting out his trademark punishment for things such as talking on the stairs or walking down on the right hand side instead of the left hand side!!!!
Frank Callus is still alive i believe, according to my mother who is involved with the (catholic church) Remember Mr John? or Jogo as we called him, he was a bit of a twat.
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He was in Lliswerry I guess around 84/85
That figures, i think that he retired from Lady Mary in eighty four, although i always thought that he completely retired.
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Tuerto
That figures, i think that he retired from Lady Mary in eighty four, although i always thought that he completely retired.
Might be a different Frank Callus.
Just looked him up on LinkedIn and it shows his first teaching job was in Lliswerry from 79-85
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Wash DC Blue
Might be a different Frank Callus.
Just looked him up on LinkedIn and it shows his first teaching job was in Lliswerry from 79-85
Didn’t think it was our resident monster.
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Tuerto
Frank Callus is still alive i believe, according to my mother who is involved with the (catholic church) Remember Mr John? or Jogo as we called him, he was a bit of a twat.
Joggo died fairly recently, was John Williams still there when you were there? Great teacher, drank in The Royal Oak, a musician in St Alban’s band, used to get us in The City with a group complimentary ticket in the late 60s, anyway, he passed away last week. Callus won’t die, looked like he reincarnated at Lliswerry School to continue his reign of terror:hehe:
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splott parker
Didn’t think it was our resident monster.
Probably his Son
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alfie
I remember all the boys in our class had the cane after our form teacher ran out of the class crying. Someone chalked on the blackboard `Miss Owen is a Lesbian' Turns out it was one of the girls.
I went to Whitchurch Grammar where the cane was used very sparingly and you had to do something incredibly wrong to receive it.
4 or 5 boys in my class - if we had had a mass beating- were effeminate, non sporting and so weak nobody ever bullied them. I don’t think these poor guys could have handled corporal punishment without lots of crying, begging to be let off, etc.
Out of interest, what was the errant girl’s punishment in the end? Also, how did her classmates treat her from then on? Was there some sort of revenge against her?
A mass incorrect caning in my school I think would have had repercussions against the school/teachers by parents even in the 1960s. Most pupils were there to learn and get into university; not to misbehave. You only had to see the other parents at parents’ meetings to understand what they were like. Their precious studious kids being caned would generally not have gone down well!
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splott parker
Joggo died fairly recently, was John Williams still there when you were there? Great teacher, drank in The Royal Oak, a musician in St Alban’s band, used to get us in The City with a group complimentary ticket in the late 60s, anyway, he passed away last week. Callus won’t die, looked like he reincarnated at Lliswerry School to continue his reign of terror:hehe:
No Mr williams. Mr James-Had an accident in his army years, taught Technical Drawing. Mr Wooding-Geography-Dr Shears-Biology-Mr Tudor-Chemistry-Les Gauntlett-PE Mike German-Music-Miss Shamah? Art or some other shit-Mr Mark(Harpo)
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Wash DC Blue
Probably his Son
He had twin sons who’d be 66 now, I know that because they’d have been in my year had they gone to Lady Mary, of course he swung it for them to go elsewhere, no doubt for fear of indirect retribution being taken out on them on the ash or the yard.
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Tuerto
No Mr williams. Mr James-Had an accident in his army years, taught Technical Drawing. Mr Wooding-Geography-Dr Shears-Biology-Mr Tudor-Chemistry-Les Gauntlett-PE Mike German-Music-Miss Shamah? Art or some other shit-Mr Mark(Harpo)
Yes, Mr James was there in my time as was Les sssss Tudor, Mike German also. Brian Mark was head but was like the invisible man, hardly ever seen.
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Tuerto
Dinner ladies were a bit nasty, so i'm with you on that one. Usually a pupils mum or Auntie, preferential treatment when the desert was dished out.
They weren't particularly nasty but two of them in my school were nicknamed Bulldog and Rambo.
They looked like they came off the set of Prisoner Cell Block H.
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goats
That teacher would get 12 months behind bars at least in our current insane society
Yes, the society which doesn't allow an adult to beat a kid with a stick for getting 75% on a geography test is the insane one.
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I got , together with 4 others , the metre long wooden measuring stick , across the open hand for being the organisers of a scrap between two kids who hated each other .
We deserved punishment of course but that sort of thing could have broken fingers or knuckles. It was barbaric and only made me more of a git in school .
No deterrent whatsoever
I was back in trouble within a few weeks
Schools should have counsellors to educate youngsters as to the effects of their behaviour and hopefully that's the case now