Cruellist/ most unusual punishment received at school

[SOCCERROO FOX]

I just punished my teachers

[Daggers]

I wonder if he also taught Richard Dawkins

Dawkins was at my school. Fact. As was the lead singer of Iron Maiden and Hairy. Double fact.

[Webbo]

We had a music teacher at our school who used to throw chalk at you for talking in class. You could be right at the back of the class but he'd always hit you smack on the lips.

[skinnydipper]

Dawkins was at my school. Fact. As was the lead singer of Iron Maiden and Hairy. Double fact.

So he did.

I wonder if he says "Daggers went to my school"

[skinnydipper]

I think skinnydipper's confusing school with a night out with Max Mosley (allegedly)

A key difference between Max and I are that wheras his experiences taught him to embrace pain mine have caused an aversion to it. In fact my reaction to pain is somewhat overdeveloped, it being alleged that I even wince when having my hair cut.

For those of you that remain interested here's the second part of my school punishment trilogy

I received the cane on a number of occasions, not because I was a particularly naughty child but because I had the misfortune to attend a number of schools staffed by sadists.

The oddest occasion of being caned was after I had inadvertently requested it.

In the top year of Junior school minor playground misdemeanours were punished by a visit to the corridor outside the Headmistress' office. The drill was nose against the wall and silence until the end of break

A couple of mates and I were sent to the corridor one lunchtime. Down the corridor was another lad. He was a bit simple , spending playtimes happily walking round the playground singing and clapping to himself.I mean this lad was never naughty so I can only imagine that he ended up in the corridor because his singing pissed off the lunchtime supervisors.

Anyway, on the wall next to this lad was a panel of button operated bells used for alarms, breaks and lessons. To my regret now but because we were bored at the time we told this lad that if you pressed the bell and kept it pressed ,a bar of chocolate would eventually come out

Without hesitation this lad jammed his finger onto the bell button where it remained, even when the Head stormed out of her office. He was after all , waiting for his chocolate. Me and my friends made a poor attempt at stifling our laughs and the Head sussed out what had happened. The three of us were ordered into her study. She was furious and shouted "Do you want the cane?"

I was shitting myself that much that I said "Yes", she thought I was being cocky and so she duly obliged

No quibbles with that one but I have never since asked to be the recipient of pain

[surrifox]

There was always a desparate need not to be late for latin, or you would be compelled to occupy the front desks. The teacher (who had been a decorated war hero in bomber command) had a nice line in arbitrary punishments. If you got a question wrong he would smack the nearest kid over the head with a set square or a board duster (producing a cloud of chalk dust) and say "I'm not wasting time walking over to (Smith/Brown or whowever) perhaps you would pass that on for me after the lesson"

I managed to get the biggest thug in the school rugby team punished and as a result suffered a dead leg which if I concentrate hard I can still feel today

[Corky]

Skinnydipper- it seems like you went to a tough school full of nutters.

[skinnydipper]

Skinnydipper- it seems like you went to a tough school full of nutters.

You're right , and that was just the teachers.

For those of you that remain interested I'll post the third part of the Trilogy tomorrow

[Tilley]

Skinnydipper, that is hilarious

Never really had any strange or unusual punishments, just the usual lobbed off trips, clean the classrooms etc.

Although, in year 8 or 9, I sprayed fart spray in someones hair & he had to clean it out in staff sink, so then I was made to clean the staff sink. & I wasn't allowed on the trip we were meant to be going on.

[Alexikokopops]

For those of you that remain interested I'll post the third part of the Trilogy tomorrow

YES!

[Guest]

I avoided punishments at school (apart from one class detention). However in my last year at infant school, my teacher did go totally ballistic with three boys in the class who tore the pages out of her own personal book. She made them pull their pants down in front of the class before she took each one over her knee and spanked them with a wooden ruler. Then she made them stand in a corner each, without pulling their pants back up. It's a wonder the authorities never got involved with that one!!

[Corky]

I avoided punishments at school (apart from one class detention). However in my last year at infant school, my teacher did go totally ballistic with three boys in the class who tore the pages out of her own personal book. She made them pull their pants down in front of the class before she took each one over her knee and spanked them with a wooden ruler. Then she made them stand in a corner each, without pulling their pants back up. It's a wonder the authorities never got involved with that one!!

Bet you young ladies weren't complaining though

[Guest]

Bet you young ladies weren't complaining though

Yes we were!! Eugh, boys!!

(I was still only 6 at that point!)

[Corky]

I remember a teacher of mine throwing a hockey ball at someone's leg in PE once. And they were solid balls (no pun intended, juveniles ) as well.

[skinnydipper]

I avoided punishments at school (apart from one class detention). However in my last year at infant school, my teacher did go totally ballistic with three boys in the class who tore the pages out of her own personal book. She made them pull their pants down in front of the class before she took each one over her knee and spanked them with a wooden ruler. Then she made them stand in a corner each, without pulling their pants back up. It's a wonder the authorities never got involved with that one!!

At last someone who is making my own schooldays seem relatively normal

[Guest]

At last someone who is making my own schooldays seem relatively normal

This was one teacher; thinking about it, she made my friends and I stand in the corner (fully clothed ) for splashing a small drop of black paint in the white paint. As none of us admitted to it, we were all punished. She had a right old rant at us!

It's all coming back to me now!

[skinnydipper]

This was one teacher; thinking about it, she made my friends and I stand in the corner (fully clothed ) for splashing a small drop of black paint in the white paint. As none of us admitted to it, we were all punished. She had a right old rant at us!

It's all coming back to me now!

Forgive me but I would have thought that there were enough grey areas to give you the benefit of the doubt

[The People's Hero]

I remember a teacher of mine throwing a hockey ball at someone's leg in PE once. And they were solid balls (no pun intended, juveniles ) as well.

I once knocked someone out with a hockey ball. I was playing at the back and he was charging my down, I hit a lofted shot and it got him in the face.

Nice.

[skinnydipper]

Here's the final instalment of my own experiences.

Having suffered significant head trauma against Ms As bosom collider ( akin to repeatedly heading a soaked leather lace up football) my first years at secondary school were marked by academic under performance.

To halt the slide my parents packed me off to boarding school at the age of 13 and I appreciate that this gave me an opportunity to turn things around that many didn't have.

Although the prospectus described it as a private school, such were the numbers of delinquents and freaks there (students and teachers) that it was in fact more akin to a fee paying borstal. The defining feature of the games teacher at the school was a handle-bar moustache that was a fashion accessory of its time (late 70s). In appearance he looked as if he'd walked straight out of a C&A catalogue.

Generally I looked forward to games, the exception being for gymnastics which I was totally useless at, especially things like vaulting.

I wasn't alone in my dislike of gym.One day three of my classmates turned up for P.E. saying that they were unable to do gym because they had forgotten their kit. The boys concerned were all boarders and so their kit was in their dormitory, no more than 5 minutes walk from the sports hall. The teacher could have said " Go and get your kit and be back here changed in 10 minutes and you're getting a detention for forgetting it" ...... but he didn't.

He decided that as a punishment and to deter others from forgetting their kit that these boys would do gym in the nude; They stripped to their underpants - "NUDE I said"- even underwear was not allowed.

In the late 70s if your teacher told you to do something you generally did it so these boys stripped naked and lined up for their turn on the vault. The procedure was to run up , jump on a mini trampoline and vault (leap-frog) along the length of the box.

The visual of these three lads vaulting is unfortunately still quite vivid.Picture those joke rubber chickens being thrown in the air to simulate flight and you're not too far away.

Not long after the teacher disappeared from the school overnight and without so much as a goodbye. Perhaps his methods received plaudits resulting in a promotion - but we never heard of him again

The common denominator in my own experiences of cruel and unusual punishments is that they all occurred at religious schools. The sixth form college that I attended was non religious. The kindness and humanity experienced there came as quite a shock !

[Alexikokopops]

Brilliant

[The People's Hero]

Thread of the year. No doubt about it.

Travesty it's not even a contender.

Shame on you Foxestalk, shame on you.

[skinnydipper]

Brilliant

Thread of the year. No doubt about it.

Travesty it's not even a contender.

Shame on you Foxestalk, shame on you.

Appreciated

[Thracian]

Here's the final instalment of my own experiences.

Having suffered significant head trauma against Ms As bosom collider ( akin to repeatedly heading a soaked leather lace up football) my first years at secondary school were marked by academic under performance.

To halt the slide my parents packed me off to boarding school at the age of 13 and I appreciate that this gave me an opportunity to turn things around that many didn't have.

Although the prospectus described it as a private school, such were the numbers of delinquents and freaks there (students and teachers) that it was in fact more akin to a fee paying borstal. The defining feature of the games teacher at the school was a handle-bar moustache that was a fashion accessory of its time (late 70s). In appearance he looked as if he'd walked straight out of a C&A catalogue.

Generally I looked forward to games, the exception being for gymnastics which I was totally useless at, especially things like vaulting.

I wasn't alone in my dislike of gym.One day three of my classmates turned up for P.E. saying that they were unable to do gym because they had forgotten their kit. The boys concerned were all boarders and so their kit was in their dormitory, no more than 5 minutes walk from the sports hall. The teacher could have said " Go and get your kit and be back here changed in 10 minutes and you're getting a detention for forgetting it" ...... but he didn't.

He decided that as a punishment and to deter others from forgetting their kit that these boys would do gym in the nude; They stripped to their underpants - "NUDE I said"- even underwear was not allowed.

In the late 70s if your teacher told you to do something you generally did it so these boys stripped naked and lined up for their turn on the vault. The procedure was to run up , jump on a mini trampoline and vault (leap-frog) along the length of the box.

The visual of these three lads vaulting is unfortunately still quite vivid.Picture those joke rubber chickens being thrown in the air to simulate flight and you're not too far away.

Not long after the teacher disappeared from the school overnight and without so much as a goodbye. Perhaps his methods received plaudits resulting in a promotion - but we never heard of him again

The common denominator in my own experiences of cruel and unusual punishments is that they all occurred at religious schools. The sixth form college that I attended was non religious. The kindness and humanity experienced there came as quite a shock !

Terrific read that.

[skinnydipper]

Terrific read that.

Ta to you to

[Zingari]

i see that your experiences at the gym did not give you "gymnophobia" though skinnydipper