Hello: ....and fagging, beatings, OTC, compulsory games, nightly prep., prefects, chapel, the list, looking back, is endless. English Public schools, as experienced into the 1960s, were little changed from 100years previously. The happiest days of one's life?
This brings back memories of one's American and English boarding school days. I ate many a meal in such rooms in my youth.
ReplyDeleteI've got antlers up in my post today too, for the sake if deceny I won't go for the obvious quip
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ReplyDelete....and fagging, beatings, OTC, compulsory games, nightly prep., prefects, chapel, the list, looking back, is endless. English Public schools, as experienced into the 1960s, were little changed from 100years previously. The happiest days of one's life?
Not exactly the Detroit Public Schools, is it?
ReplyDelete@ Robert - Thank God. I'm sure Detroit Public Schools are far more brutal...
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