School detentions

[Xenophon PCDGS]

You'd have thought that a school would encourage lateral thinking.

You have to remember that St Bede's College was also a boarding school for those who had hopes for training to the priesthood and I was the only day-boy all my years there in the Classics stream up to the Sixth Form.

Noting that theology was part of the Classics stream as a grounding provision, such an interjection that I had made was not at all viewed in good stead..

For some information, a fellow pupil in my year range, but in the Moderns stream, was Mike Harding.

 

[Wyvern]

Detentions?

Someone, if I remember rightly, had stolen something. At about half past eleven one morning, the head came into our class and asked the culprit to own up. Receiving no answer, he announced that, if there was no admission of guilt by the end of the dinner hour, he would cane the whole class. That dinner, the 'bad boy' of the class coached us on how to take the cane. You were expected to hold your hand out straight, but you should keep it as relaxed as possible without it being noticed. As the cane made contact, you moved your hand with it, again being careful to time it in such a way that it wasn't noticeable. At the next break after the caning, we all got together to compare bruises. As an exercise in detective work, it made a first class way of encouraging peer group bonding, even including an outsider like myself - us against them.

 

[Amberley54]

Detentions?

Someone, if I remember rightly, had stolen something. At about half past eleven one morning, the head came into our class and asked the culprit to own up. Receiving no answer, he announced that, if there was no admission of guilt by the end of the dinner hour, he would cane the whole class. That dinner, the 'bad boy' of the class coached us on how to take the cane. You were expected to hold your hand out straight, but you should keep it as relaxed as possible without it being noticed. As the cane made contact, you moved your hand with it, again being careful to time it in such a way that it wasn't noticeable. At the next break after the caning, we all got together to compare bruises. As an exercise in detective work, it made a first class way of encouraging peer group bonding, even including an outsider like myself - us against them.

Did the culprit eventually come clean, or did he go on to be an estate agent or politician?

 

[VTPreston_Tez]

I had one in Year 8 when the whole class was given a detention and individual pupils could earn their way out of it - unfortunately I was caught talking with a friend about Chinese food so 45 minutes of writing out the times tables the next Monday afternoon followed

It's only a criminal offence if they don't give at least 24 hours notice.

That seems fair. Obviously some of the teachers won't adhere to that but at least school seems more lenient than when you were there!
I think the rule is "just don't get referred" nowadays.

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

Did the culprit eventually come clean, or did he go on to be an estate agent or politician?

Very droll, I like your comment here.

 

[Amberley54]

Very droll, I like your comment here.

The biggest s**t in my year at school went on to devise one of the biggest tax avoidance schemes for multi national companies - result has been a loss of £100s millions of tax revenue for the UK economy.

How many hospital beds and nurses would it all have paid for, I wonder? I doubt he cares.

 

[Jones]

Went to a school affectionately known as St Bast*rds

Detention was a regular occurrence until we all walked out of a relief teachers class. From then it was only the guilty party.

Hated every day, each day even more. When the teachers weren't striking they were messing up the new GCSE curriculum. I've always had a low opinion of teachers and as a parent it has just got lower with time.