Sadly it was a regular occurrence years ago.
It was mate. This was the 1970s. I would’ve been around 9 at the time and my teacher performed a ‘mock hanging’ of another pupil - even making him stand on a chair with a rope around his neck.
A lot of teachers back then had a sadistic and cruel streak in them. Don’t get me wrong, there were many great ones as well, who were kind, good and inspirational teachers.
Another PE teacher used to stand at the end of the communal showers and watch us come out of the showers naked. If that wasn’t inappropriate enough, for additional ‘fun’ he used to flick a wet towel at us as we came out of the shower.
I was pleased to discover that in 2018 the very same teacher who flicked the wet towel at us was convicted of sexually assaulting boys in the late 70s and early 80s. I wonder how many young lives he tainted over the years. He was jailed for 15 years in 2018.
