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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 !
Doing my laces up.
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 concussedThe other incident was for fighting in Woodwork. Suspended countless times, thrown out at fifteen. I was a disaster in school.
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 *****.Originally Posted by BLUETIT
I've never seen a Nun's ****, to know if it's horrible or not
Surely not the elderly Brother Luke of the late '60s and into the '70s. He was kind, gentle and meek to a fault, forever pottering around his greenhouse. Brother Alexander was the sadist. Very handy (and skilled) with the cane.
This was early 60’s when St Illtyds was down Splott.
The school drastically changed when it moved to Llanrumney/St Mellon’s
Brother Claude, the headmaster down Splott was a sadist
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.
He took a run up from outside the classroom, in the corridor, and gave a hell of a whack. I was at Pontypridd Grammar too so remember him well. He was a nice bloke apart from the the blatant sadism. And as you you say a Geometry teacher too. A fair few of the teachers there knew how to punish kids. Canes across the back of the legs, back of the hands, palm of the hands and one guy across the face. And we had to avoid board dusters been launched at us.
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.
The kids who were trouble makers in school rather than my lot, who even though we got caned a fair bit were just occasionally naughty boys, no more, certainly didn’t change their ways. The beatings they had which were a bit more extreme than the stick or the dap, sometimes, didn’t make them see the light, in fact it most probably made them worse. Teachers flying off the handle didn’t help at all, sensible, considerate handling, which some teachers displayed gained them a lot more respect resulting in better pupil behaviour.
I got the cane for booing the dinner lady
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.I got the cane for booing the dinner lady
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
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.
I got the cane for booing the dinner lady
Did you really frighten her ?
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
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
I attended St. Cadoc's primary school in the 1960s when the headmaster was Mr. Buckley. He had a reputation among us kids for wielding a bamboo cane with a rusty nail through the end, the better to draw blood. I was sent to his office for 'crossing the white line' in the playground once too often. I stood outside his office trembling for about 20 minutes, the mythical rusty nail growing larger and larger in my imagination. Finally, he showed up. 'Why are you here?' he asked. 'I stepped outside the white line,' I said.
Looks at me for an interminable five seconds.
'Get back to your classroom,' he said.
That is the definition of relief.
Was the food that bad,a complaint would have been betterI got the cane for booing the dinner lady
I once got 'booked' in the Air Cadets for breaking wind when everyone was saluting a photo of the Queen.
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