Quote Originally Posted by Q165 View Post
We had one teacher who not employ anything to inflict pain. He would sadistically get hold of the short hair just by the ear and twist it...and twist it. That certainly made my eyes water.
In the 70's physical violence by our teachers was nothing unusual towards us male pupils.

One male teacher even made salacious comments towards a female class mate of mine....Helen Pugh had an amazing par of "Top Bollox" which quite rightly got the attention of us ****age lads but to hear a teacher passing dirty comments didn't really raise an eyebrow at during that time.

We had one teacher who knew where every nerve point on the body was and he'd press on one and have you in agony on the class floor.

Chucking the board rubber at us was another favourite.

In hindsight it was the best life training I could've had and the same for most of us who are 50+....part of the problem with today's under 40's is that a lot of them are too soft and have no backbone.