Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

The system of detention was widely used in my time, a shame some teachers didn't use that deterrent more rather than inflicting physical pain on young boys, some of whom could have been scarred for life by the methods used. , Rather ironically, whilst my back, backside and thighs were "well treated...

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. Elsewhere on the site some of the girls have said they resented their punishments at Hertford - in some cases being condemned to be silent for ten minutes: a draconian punishment for a woman. That is a common punishment in a local primary school even today (Oh, and that is in a corner facing the ...

Will; you don't say where you are going to. I would have thought £35K for a starting teacher was a very reasonable salary.
Some cities have weighting because of local increased costs and I suspect that some deprived areas will load teachers' income.

Kit Bartlett wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:58 pm

. Was corporal punishment ever done on the hand ?

Not at CH to my knowledge but my primary school teacher loved using her ruler.

Mid A 15 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:25 am

Anyone else watch 'Endeavour' last night?

Plenty of references to 'squits.'

Maybe Roger Allam (Chief Inspector Thursday in the programme) had a say in the script.

Squit or squirt? Squirt is slang used outside CH and has a similar meaning

Goatherd wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:40 pm

We used 'drut'

This reminded me of an argument between our antipodean cousins plus UK contingent versus the USA gang.

Americans use the word "drug" where we use "dragged" (as in we dragged the body out of the ditch). To them "dragged" is totally wrong, unacceptable....

Florida Blue wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 04, 2018 12:47 am

Here's the link- just thought it was somewhat hilarious!
https://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/horsethief.asp

ROTFL Shows that someone somewhere has created and copied probably every joke created.

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That, Sally, I think must have been at Hertford where, we are told, they had their own way of doing things. As far as I recall, at Horsham we were dumped in any convenient bed and simply left to ferment slowly. I suspect thatwe did have the luxury of sheets but as for the rest it seemed to be a reen...

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