I saw a headline in a local paper: “Teacher suspended after using ‘inappropriate force’ to restrain pupil”.
For some reason my mind drifted back to the halcyon days of Down with skool, and the varied methods of assuring justice favoured by the cane-wielding masters of the day.
What would Nigel Molesworth, the curse of St. Custards — or at least those who had to teach him — have thought?
Probably they would have said that things could go too far.
But I think that probably the only idea of “inappropriate force to restrain” in Nigel’s mind would be “hanging a boy by the neck until dead”.
