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Mar 01, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
How sad and surprising to hear about a teacher raining blows down on a screaming child, at a private school, and then challenging a person complaining, “ to do something about it” . Let us hope that child’s parents did something about it and removed the child from the school.
This incident reminded me of one that happened to our class of teenagers at our fee-paying high school in the late 1940s. The class was given a text from a reading book to learn, and the headmaster then decided to test our spelling by dictating it. Every youngster who got more than two mistakes was given 2/3 lashes on the hand with a wild cane. Since there were several such youngsters, the ‘abuse’ continued for some time, which disturbed and angered a chap who lived in a house next to the school. The man suddenly looked out of his window and asked the abuser whether he was “beating cow”.
Then described the performance twice as “little soft round objects” in the vernacular, and swore he would not allow any child of his to suffer that. We students were amused, the headmaster furious, and continued. The school eventually went downhill and closed unexpectedly. I have always found that people in charge of children who abuse them, whether parents or teachers, have serious psychological issues and need medical treatment of one kind or another. Children always remember the people who were mean to them and those who were kind to them. When grown up, they either hit back or reward. Adults should bear that in mind.
Geralda Dennison.

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