Millie Week 87: Mon 4 - Sat 9 May 1992

More memories of school. I very rarely got put in detention - if I ever did it would have been for boring stuff like handing in homework late. The nuclear option for the worst miscreants was the Saturday detention which involved coming to school for three hours on Saturday mornings. Not too onerous, but for one thing - you had to go to school in full uniform - and everyone in town knew that wearing uniform on a Saturday could only mean one thing...

The book punishment was one I remembered from primary school. An encycopedia would be put on each outstretched hand, and you had to keep them there without dropping the books for two minutes. Try it on your five year old tonight, a fun time is guaranteed for all.

I've talked about chalk throwing in the past. We had a French teacher who was the best at it - the chalk embedded back wall of his hut was an effective deterrent to any misbehaviour in class. Teachers with less finesse threw board rubbers - luckily they tended not to have any aim at all.