6th
July
1883
1883
very quarrelsome when they
leave school on their way
home. Several complaints have
been made, and so I had to
caution many of them against
being so unkind to each other".
| Very quarrelsome children | ||
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There is nothing new about children
behaving badly ! In Victorian times
many teachers used the cane regularly, and very few parents complained
about strict discipline. But it didn't stop some children from getting
into trouble ! |
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6th
July
1883 |
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"Some
of the children are very quarrelsome when they leave school on their way home. Several complaints have been made, and so I had to caution many of them against being so unkind to each other". |
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These boys, also from Llanllugan School, had also got off without a caning in September 1881... |
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27th
September
1881 |
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"I was obliged to punish 5 boys in the 1st Standard [class] by keeping them in, for being careless and inattentive during the reading and Arithmetic lessons". |
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That doesn't happen
nowadays, of course ! Everybody just loves doing arithmetic ! A pardon for taking the vicar's apples...
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RDR
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