Fun is banned at schools ....

[madandra]

Little Miss Mad has told me that snowballs are banned at her school. Because someone may get a sore one but that got me thinking:


In my time ...

has been told that snowball fights are BANNED at his daughters school ...

In my day :
The playground at Calder Primary resembled 'The Somme'

Bodies lay all over the place with tell tale dods of snow that were the resut of a perfect head shot.

Friendly fire was common and not always accidental.

Anyone who ran to the headmaster got what is now called a 'code red'

The radiators reaked of wet wooly gloves being recharged for lunch time.

Girls were regularly caught in the fog of war.

Anything bigger than a car was attacked by wee boys who thought they could tan a windae with school bus driver threatening to kick yer erse.

you could tell the snobs coz they had wool tying their mittens together but if you could remove the mittens the wool could be used as a restraining rope thus allowing a good pummeling.

You had to beware the big P7's as their ability to reload faster with harder ammo could lead to an ear full of snow.

Using the fat kid for cover from incoming was clever and he was not classed as a human shield nor a victim

An hypervantalating was a common occurrence when the furry bit of the snorkel/parka jacket got caught in the zip.

Good times ... good times.

 

[John_Findlay]

I remember when the teacher was allowed to throw the blackboard duster at you. If you ducked.... they gave you the belt. What's the world coming to, eh?

 

[chrisd]

I remember when the teacher was allowed to throw the blackboard duster at you. If you ducked.... they gave you the belt. What's the world coming to, eh?

Back in the mid 1960's my geography teacher was probably the uncrowned blackboad rubber throwing champion of south east London! By crikey it did hurt if he caught you at full velocity

I did also get clouted round the head by our only lady teacher several times - French lessons were always fun!


Chris

 

[John_Findlay]

Let them throw snowballs, I say. How are kids ever gonna get good at sport if they can't heighten their reaction times at an early age. A mild concussion never did anyone any harm, so far as I'm aware.

 

[Tommo21]

With our breath we used to kid on we were smoking in the cold weather....well, until we could buy single fags when we were 12.

 

[clubchamp07]

The yard stick was the worst, or blackboard ruler.....

My son isn't allowed outside while at school, during snow, all pupils must STAY indoors.
Totally mad, let them out so they can have a bit of fun.

 

[vig]

I remember when the teacher was allowed to throw the blackboard duster at you. If you ducked.... they gave you the belt. What's the world coming to, eh?

Ahhh, happy days. I remember my maths teacher at high school launching one towards me, I ducked and it hit a lass smack in the mouth, ouch!!
We were rolling about laughing as teach went very pale.
Spent the rest of the lesson in the corridor then had an hours detention.
Worth it though, he wasn't such a tw@t after that.

I remember going back when my son was there for a parents evening and he was still there.
I told him that I could believe that a scrawny git like him ever intimidated me.

 

[The_LHC]

I remember when the teacher was allowed to throw the blackboard duster at you. If you ducked.... they gave you the belt. What's the world coming to, eh?

Back in the mid 1960's my geography teacher was probably the uncrowned blackboad rubber throwing champion of south east London! By crikey it did hurt if he caught you at full velocity

I did also get clouted round the head by our only lady teacher several times - French lessons were always fun!


Chris

Well MY latin teacher got a mention on National Radio 1 by Mike Smith (the helicopter crashing DJ, we went to the same school) for his board rubber throwing skills. Mr Booth, a proper legend, he could hit you with a piece of chalk and then follow it up with the board rubber to remove the chalk mark. Top, top bloke as well, although he could shout louder than anyone I've ever heard.

 

[Ethan]

I grew up in Northern Ireland and was at primary school in the late 60s, early 70s. One day one of the kids came with a satchel full of rubber bullets which had been left lying around the town square from a riot the previous evening. Immediately everyone was throwing rubber bullets at one another and before the teachers could get out to grab them, several kids were felled after being hit on the head by a heavy lump of rubber about the size of a soft drink can, and weighing nearly as much.

 

[viscount17]

Latin teachers throwing board rubbers - how plebian!
Mine used a ballista for firing chalk,

The maths teacher had a habit of tapping (well a bit more than that) on your feet with board ruler, until the fatal Wednesday, sports day and more than a few of us played hockey - oh how sweet revenge can be.

 

[richart]

I remember when the teacher was allowed to throw the blackboard duster at you. If you ducked.... they gave you the belt. What's the world coming to, eh?

Do you still keep in touch with Tom Brown ?

 

[bobmac]

Did anybody suffer any mental or physical scars from being punished at school. ( belt, cane etc)
If not, why was it banned?

 

[richart]

Did anybody suffer any mental or physical scars from being punished at school. ( belt, cane etc)
If not, why was it banned?

No affect on me, i'm totally normal.

 

[DCB]

Snow on the ground meant wellies on yer feet. That caused collateral damage to your legs as the wellies chaffed a red ring round your upper calf.

This was of course in the days when all schoolboys had to wear shorts. We were real men in those days

And you weren't properly dressed for a winters day without the balaclava that your mum or grannie knitted for you, good old scratchy wool round the ears, just what the doctor ordered

 

[need_my_wedge]

I grew up in Northern Ireland and was at primary school in the late 60s, early 70s. One day one of the kids came with a satchel full of rubber bullets which had been left lying around the town square from a riot the previous evening. Immediately everyone was throwing rubber bullets at one another and before the teachers could get out to grab them, several kids were felled after being hit on the head by a heavy lump of rubber about the size of a soft drink can, and weighing nearly as much.

Just sprayed my soup over the keyboard reading this. Class.

 

[GB72]

We would be out playing sport in this weather, played many a game of rugby in the snow. If it was really too bad to play then we were all just let loose on the sports fields to hurl snowballs about all afternoon.

 

[medwayjon]

Terrible that they can ban one of the most fun things in a childs life.

Well fun until some git laces one with stones in the middle, not that I ever did obviously.

 

[JustOne]

Did anybody suffer any mental or physical scars from being punished at school. ( belt, cane etc)

Three naughty girls were hit across the palms with a ruler in front of the class.... changed me forever!

 

[daymond]

A rap over the knuckles with a cane.
Blackboardd duster:the ones with the wooden grip.
Yes it was tough in the 40's and 50's
Must be like holiday camp now
Oh not to mention six shots with a bamboo cane from an eighteen year old squash player. ouch!

 

[rgs]

The problem is with the parents who will run to their solicitor to sue the school as their little angel was injured by the negligence of the school for failing to protect their angel in the school. Then you have the Judges who will agree with the parents and hold the school liable for failing to supervise the children in the school.

Hence snowballs are banned, running in the yard is banne etc.

Its not the schools fault but the parents.