Offences in class and elsewhere about the school, or even outside it (and pupils in uniform and it was a school rule that they were ALWAYS in uniform outside school premises represent the good name of the school wherever they happen to be), merited punishments on a scale determined and administered by me where corporal punishment was required. I asked formally. Bhabhi I recall one summer afternoon. ‘Jennifer’, I said, ‘You have twenty four against you; what will you do?’ This was a question dreaaded by all girls in the school. I recall one summer afternoon. When she had been talked to sternly by her form mistress she had been less than respectful. The whippy cane flexed round the side of her thigh and the flesh tuned white then crimson as the thick firey welts started to rise from her totured flesh. I looked up quizzically at the prefect, ‘Yes, Liz; is there a problem?’
‘Yes Sir’
