An interesting article from August 1893. The School Board met that month to discuss who should pay for the “tawse” being supplied to Low Blantyre School. The problem was that leather straps for the sole use of imposing punishment on children, was not something the whole Board agreed upon should be paid for by ratepayers. […]
Most of the readership of this page will remember Corporal Punishment at Schools as a child but did you know the Blantyre School Board had the power to abolish it, but chose not to. Blantyre man, Mr Andra McAnulty proved himself as a forwardly thinking individual more than 110 years ago by suggesting such violent […]
On 17th July 1897, it was reported in local press that Mr William Small is sick and tired of school-children coming to his residence, Olivia Cottage, Blantyre, and exhibiting on their posteriors, evidences and traces of the their strict teacher’s ‘handiwork’. The report suggested, “Mr Small has elevating ideas and tastes, as witness his “communicals […]