I remember British bulldog being barely tolerated. Cannot imagine it’s allowed now.

Noxious chemicals outside the fume cupboard. Going to the toilet when you needed it. Teachers throwing chalk (hard) at the pupils, caning, being slippered. Homophobia being very popular and seen as a good thing. Teachers smoking like chimneys in the staff room. Wolf whistling. Persistent sexual harassment dismissed as “boys will be boys”.

Binnings. So many people got binned by the Year 11s. One guy got tied up and left in one upside for a while.

So like…are water/drinking fountains still a thing in schools? Even before COVID they always seemed a bit…you know, yuck.

I’ve been locked in a cupboard and had my back scratched (she was trying to grab me but missed) so hard it bled amongst other things. My old mate got tied to a chair and left there for a whole break time. One old school R.E. teacher used to throw a ball of chalk at kids heads if they were pissing about. Being made to do P.E. in your underwear, in highschool.

We almost certainly deserved it though.

Our music teacher (whose name was Tom Jones. If only that Tom Jones) would deal with disruptive pupils in a class by hurling the wooden blackboard eraser at a pulls head where it would hit them directly on the forehead. He was a supreme marksman. Saw a kid lose consciousness from the impact one. Wham! And suddenly there’s was just a cloud of chalk where a kid once sat. This man was also in the Salvation army (clearly attack division)