Introductions - a thing of the past?

I actually said thumped, not punched. One teacher in particular would thump anyone in the shoulder with the side of his hand if they were not in line for instance. Anyway its in the past-cant undo it but that's they was it was and they had no tolerance for shy folk. If they weren't ridiculed they were jst ignored and were left to slide behind with their school work. One particular lady had a habit of slapping us either on the bottom or hands we were all scared of her.
Im so glad that kids nowadays don't have to put up with that.

"What on earth was the original subject of this post, cant remember."

That made me laugh out loud Silverfish.

meant to say the way it was. not the was it was

I remember getting the ruler when I was a child. The teacher used to bend your fingers back - and that hurt as much as the ruler hitting your palm. She was cruel.

Another teacher (in the infants!) had a way of bringing her fingertips together and prodding us in the back with them. Really painful.

I remember the ruler (from the nuns) and the cane (from my mother)

Our Latin teacher used to throw the (hard variety) chalk duster at us. This made start sneezing and I was sent to stand outside for 'taking the mick'!

Sorry. Couldn't help but laugh there.

One male teacher used to smack us on the bum with his cane, that was so humiliating and just as painful as the hand

Which area of the North East did you go to school Silverfish

Sorry, Silverfish, yes I see that you did say 'thumped' and not 'punched'. My mistake.

I went to the tough area, school cant be more specific than that as I still live near there and saw one of my former teachers, a doddrey old man of about 90 but I bet her could still wield a cane-not taking any chances