Head canes 18 years olds for freeing rabbits
It beggars belief some of the stories that made the pages of national newspapers in England during the golden age of journalism .....!
Boys
freed the ‘lab’ rabbits – caned
THREE senior schoolboys have been punished for saving
three baby rabbits due to be dissected in a school examination.
They took the rabbits from the biology room and
released them in a copse in the grounds of the school, the Varndean Grammar
School for Boys, Brighton.
When the boys, all 18, owned up, headmaster Mr. E. J.
Hutchins told six-footer Clive Ashworth, a prefect, and Paul Rayment, a deputy
prefect:
“You can either hand in your prefects’
ties or take three stokes of the cane.”
Paul, of Bates Road, Brighton, decided to have the
cane.
Clive, of West Hill Road, Brighton, said last night:
“I thought it was beneath my dignity to bend over, so I handed in my tie.”
The third boy, Roger Cox, of Woodingdean,
had no alternative. He got three strokes.
Clive, who is going to study at the London School of
Economics next term, said: “We saw the rabbits in a glass-fronted cage in the
biology laboratory and decided to set them free.
“After school, we put them in a bag and released them
in the copse.
“It was all done on the spur of the moment. We just
felt sorry for them.”
Yesterday, Mr. Hutchins told Clive that he would
consider reinstating him as a prefect in the ear future if he behaved himself.
As published in the Daily
Mirror, 3 June 1959.
Picture credit: Sting
Pictures
Traditionalschooldiscipline@gmail.com
Comments
Post a Comment