Being made to stand in the corner with hands on head was normal but fortunately without wearing the dunce's hat that the previous generation were humiliated with. All this appears to have run aground through lack of money and lack of sufficient trained staff willing to devote themselves to this tough work. Those punishments were horrific but now things have gone to the other extreme where teachers frequently suffer abuse. Eventually, he spread his legs and bent his knees and in this attitude he was able to rest his stomach over the apex of the chair’s back.

I got the slipper, well PE plimsoll actually, for getting caught helping to chuck a kid in my class out of a mobile classroom window and into a snow drift outside.One of those teachers I now realise I was told was diabetic, I wasn't told what that meant, what a hypo was or why he'd get extremely angry, sweating, lash out at everyone then stagger or be pulled out of the class by another teacher. I must, of course, clarify that my gratification did not arise from cruelty but from the belief that this experience would steer these young men toward a path of responsibility and adherence to the rules that govern our institution. At secondary school canings were frequent, mainly by the headmaster and a handful of other sadistic teachers. Just as a small example, in my first year the Head of School would march around with a phalanx of school monitors, looking grim and army-like.

The power to administer corporal punishment is given to some boys in three-fifths of the schools and, moreover, it is seldom confined to the head boy, being so restricted in only 16 of the 95 schools for which the information is available. The averages are obtained by dividing the number of beatings by the total number of boys; if allowance is made for the fact that many of the senior boys are probably not 'at risk', it can be seen that in these schools the junior boys must be very familiar with this form of discipline. Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ.He was banned from doing it when one day he threw it at a kid with faster reactions than normal, who pulled up his desk lid as it flew towards him - it bounced off the lid, went straight through the window next to him (in a first-floor classroom) and showered the headmaster and a couple of prospective parents who were visiting the school and who were walking past with broken glass. While I do believe in the power of corporal punishment to enforce discipline, today, I must admit, there was an unfamiliar twinge of anticipation as I contemplated administering the caning. If that is the case, then there is even less reason to accuse the Head of being a child abusing pervert. I put it to you that's a better explanation as to why someone would behave to wards his ex- teacher in the manner Bulen did.