Our school had the French exchange students over. One of them talked during assembly. The school’s head of “discipline” was not impressed. He spied the visiting Mr French talking and dealt with him in exactly the way he would deal with any of us talking: he made the lad stand up (everyone else was cross-legged on the floor) and walk to face him.
We all knew the flavour of what was to come: the head of discipline threw his booming voice, almost point blank, into the French boy’s face, then further humiliated him by making him stand on stage with his back to us for the rest of the school assembly. We watched, aghast, as the 16-year-old’s shoulders shook with sobs.
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