Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
25 Jul 18
16:17
Joined:
Date Joined:
21 May 10
A permanent exclusion was called an expulsion in my day.
At my school, you had to do something pretty serious to get expelled. Understandable I suppose. If they'd have set the expected behavioural standards too high, there wouldn't have been too many pupils left.
At my school, you had to do something pretty serious to get expelled. Understandable I suppose. If they'd have set the expected behavioural standards too high, there wouldn't have been too many pupils left.
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 9
|
By:
It all seems very odd, with in-school exclusions and isolations, whatever they are, as well as short-term suspensions (which seems odd, given all the fuss they make about term-time holidays).
In my day the hierarchy of punishments went: stand outside the door; detention (kept in after school, for you young'uns); cane; expulsion. Whether any were very effective, I couldn't say, but at least it was easy to understand. Now there seem to be an absurd number of sanctions, and from what the papers say, often for things that would have gone unremarked in the past, like having the wrong haircut or too many earrings. |
|
By:
We used to go on exclusions to Drayton Manor.
|
|
By:
Where a child has a continuing track record of bad behaviour, I think the parents should be called in. Not sure if this does happen or happened when I was at school.
They should be told in no uncertain terms that their child will be punished if he doesn'y improve. Why can't parents be held to account for their child's behaviour in the same why they are if he doesn't attend school. I'm talking about serious trangression here - violence, extortion, theft, intimidation etc |
|
By:
short-term suspensions (which seems odd, given all the fuss they make about term-time holidays)
Good point. Plus I'm sure the vast majority of those getting suspensions are absolutely gutted about it, and hide away in their rooms for the duration of the "punishment", learning Latin. To add to your punishment list (actually, I'll just give my version - Edinburgh in 1990s - we had stand outside the door; detention; monitor; suspension, expulsion (might have been called exclusion by then, can't quite remember.) A "monitor" was just a piece of paper you had to take to all of your classes each day and get your teacher to say whether you'd been a good guy or a w@nk. Then you took it to your Guidance Teacher (a form teacher you'd probably call it) at the end of the day. I remember there were three different colours of monitor... white, yellow and blue. Blue was the worst, and instead of taking it to the Guidance teacher you took it to the Depute Head. Or Deepyoot Heidie, as we'd say here. |
|
By:
Reduction in discipline equals increase in bad behaviour. Shock horror.
|
|
By:
Chisel chucking charley in woodwork (I do not jest)
The old blackboard rubber also goes far ho ho cane across the open hand if you were lucky it might just be wooden ruler It never did me any harm although I do duck a lot when I hear someone shout. |
|
By:
I can only recall two pupils being expelled in my 6th form years, one for hitting another pupil with a cricket bat breaking his eye socket and the other for flashing at the school librarian!
|
|
By:
seems you get expelled if your results would be bad for school.
striking a teacher was about the only way to get expelled from our school a few went for it ... |
|
By:
Didn't anyone get "lines"? It was a common punishment at my school up to the age of about 11.
On one occasion, a friend of mine was given 200 lines. He did them on his mum's typewriter.  The teacher was furious and made him do them again. |