It’s a different world now.

[jowwy]

That wasn't an option for our sports teachers, as the School sports shirt was reversable. Plain maroon one side, maroon with a coloured bar around it on the other side. If playing as a school team, the plain maroon was the official school colours. The coloured bar varied according to which house you were in.

Our outdoor shirt was reversible, but murder ball was played in the gym, were white T-shirts was the attire........

 

[oldwheels]

There are two sides to this tho'.
My wife started as a primary school teacher in Clydebank and was often offered half fare on the trams as she looked so young. She had charge of a primary 7 class of about 30 boys and kept them under control.
Once a dog came into the playground and the kids chased it around but it gave a minor bite to one child in her class. When he complained she simply said 'Serves you right for tormenting the dog". Parent appeared later demanding her head on a platter. Fortunately the headmaster was a martinet and not intimidated and said parent left in tears apologising for her behaviour.
He was also fond of a dram and kept a bottle handy in his desk.
They were at that time housed in "temporary" huts which were so cold they wore outdoor clothing in class and stopped lessons every so often to do exercises to get warmed up.
Tough in them days.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I think in the early 90's I was going through the transition between older teachers being very old-school and younger teachers coming in who had far more respect for the kids. I'm not sure what changed; was it the new generation of parents getting fed up with kids being treated badly? Or was it some sort of intervention with regards to regulation etc? I know it was common place in the 80's and before, to administer coropral punishment. I remember my partners' mum went into school after learning that her daughter had been slapped with a ruler, and said to the teacher if she does that again then she's do the same to her!

 

[Once a Wheeler]

The increase in care and sympathy in the school system is a very welcome change from the austere judgementalism that I remember.

 

[ColinJ]

Lining up outside the armoury and each being handed a .22 Lee Enfield rifle to carry through the school, across the playground and onto the range.

Oh yes, I watched the documentary!



I'm having flashbacks to ear-twisting, hair-pulling teachers. There was one particularly creepy man who used to stand behind boys sat at their desks and massage their shoulders. I once saw him reach round and put his hands inside a boy's shirt and massage his chest!

Once, for whispering in class while the teacher was talking, I was made to stand in the corner of the classroom with one foot in a waste paper bin, tapping my chest with one hand and my head with the other, while calling out "I...AM...AN...APE"!

I had a few whiskers in my early teens, which caught the eye of one teacher. He made me stand in front of the class and rub my chin while he explained to them that, unlike their well-off parents, my working class parents were too poor to afford a razor. Perhaps they should have a collection for me?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I think in the early 90's I was going through the transition between older teachers being very old-school and younger teachers coming in who had far more respect for the kids. I'm not sure what changed; was it the new generation of parents getting fed up with kids being treated badly? Or was it some sort of intervention with regards to regulation etc? I know it was common place in the 80's and before, to administer coropral punishment. I remember my partners' mum went into school after learning that her daughter had been slapped with a ruler, and said to the teacher if she does that again then she's do the same to her!

When I started High School, my dad said I would get the belt from him every time I got the belt at school - one for one. Of course, I didn't tell him. I got 40+ strokes in 1st Year (4 on day 2!), 50+ in 2nd Year but dwindling down to only a few in the years following.

The only time my dad found out was when a music teacher let the tawse go up my wrist, creating two angry red weals. Spotted at the dinner table, I got a leathering that night.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

There was one particularly creepy man who used to stand behind boys sat at their desks and massage their shoulders. I once saw him reach round and put his hands inside a boy's shirt and massage his chest!

We had a maths teacher who liked to stand behind the seated girls and massage their shoulders whilst peeking down their blouses.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I was at High School in the early 80s and it was clear some of the teachers were uncomfortable administering corporal punishment. The music teacher was in tears after she belted us. Some of them passed the punishment onto older teachers who had no qualms though.

 

[Drago]

Not only school itself, but I had an almost 4 mile walk each way to and from secondary school. Rain, shine, 4 feet of snow, tough luck buster and off you go. I did it every single day, and didn't actually mind it.

Make a child walk a quarter of a mile anywhere in 2021 and the kids concerned would be straight on the phone to Esther Rantzen!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

When I started High School, my dad said I would get the belt from him every time I got the belt at school - one for one. Of course, I didn't tell him. I got 40+ strokes in 1st Year (4 on day 2!), 50+ in 2nd Year but dwindling down to only a few in the years following.

The only time my dad found out was when a music teacher let the tawse go up my wrist, creating two angry red weals. Spotted at the dinner table, I got a leathering that night.

When I was around 8 years old I stole a Banana Split toffee bar from the local newsagent.

I was caught and given a good hiding in the street by the owner and I had to go home and tell my mum what I had done.

She then gave me a clout.

Which was repeated when my father came home that night - not that he needed much of an excuse to whack me.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

All sounds like a bloody nightmare back in the day eh?

However, I recall those times (pre-teens) as some of the best I ever had - little did I know that my father was about to descend into alcoholism and that some rough and physically abusive years were just about to disrupt my world.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Which was repeated when my father came home that night - not that he needed much of an excuse to whack me.

I got it a fair bit as a kid but never really thought about it much when I grew up. However, talking to my younger sister before she passed away, she said she was haunted by me basically getting regularly beaten up by my dad. Most of the time she hid in her bedroom and tried to hide the noise with a pillow over her ears but sometimes she saw me getting punched and slapped and it scarred her.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Make a child walk a quarter of a mile anywhere in 2021 and the kids concerned would be straight on the phone to Esther Rantzen!

I don't think the kids would - the parents perhaps. This has been very popular round my way - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-33039084

 

[Drago]

The kids at Mini D's school do a daily mile round the grounds. Youre right, its the lazy fat-ass parents who want climate change stopped, but not if it means they have to walk anywhere.

 

[Chris S]

Sunday lunch, 1976.