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Originally Posted by MargaretR
Some teachers inflicted corporal punishment for fun (their own).
As a public school boy I expect that you were aware of that.
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No, quite honestly none of my masters got off on caning us.
They were good teachers, and were always fair, when doling out punishment.
The only teachers I saw, who seemed to get pleasure from inflicting pain, were at Rhyddings.
Especially a mad Irish man, who really should have been in a secured ward, rather than teaching French.
Mind you, I suppose he was fair too, because as well as hitting others, he also indulged in self-flagellation, with a leather strap.
I don't really see the need to mention I was a 'public school boy'.
Unless you believe the myth that they are hot beds of sin and perversion.
They aren't.
No more so than in the state schools, which I also attended.
