Head lists offences that will get you the cane

 

Head tells: When I use cane

SCHOOLBOY pranks that endanger life deserve the cane, according to a comprehensive head who hates caning.

Mr. D. J. Pritchard, headmaster of Jaffray School, Birmingham, has listed some of the occasions he has been forced to use the cane.

They involved a boy who specialised in loosening wheel and brace nuts in bicycles, and two boys who held a smaller boy on the ground while a third kicked his head with heavy boots.

Mr. Pritchard lists some of the other times he has resorted to the cane in the Head Teachers’ Review, journal of the National Association of Head Teachers.

They include:

A GROUP of boys playing “chicken” by running across a busy main road.

A BOY who dropped stones from a footbridge on to cars passing on the road below.

A BOY who threw a firework into the middle of a group of young girls.

As published in Aberdeen Press and Journal (Scotland), 29 December 1976

Picture credit: CP Services, London

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