A Novel Punishment for Schoolboys.
John Mansfield, the assistant master of the Greencoat School, Whitehall-street, was charged at the Thames Police Court yesterday (Jan. 2) with assaulting a scholar named Parry. The boy had been frequently punished for talking, and one day lately, in order to disgrace him, Mr Mansfield caused him to put out his tongue, which the master strapped and tied by a piece of string to a chair. There was no evidence that the boy was hurt ; and some of his school-fellows said he laughed as he stood with his tongue fastened. The magistrate said in this case it did not seem that there had been any real punishment. The boy appeared to have been very much given to talking. Punishment had not done any good, and the master wished to degrade him, the same as by putting a fool's cap on a boy's head, or tying the arms of a boy given to fighting. If the boy, however, had not put his tongue out voluntarily, no power on earth would get it out for the purpose of its being tied. The degradation oftheboywas intended as an example to the school. The summons would be dismissed.— From the " Pall Mall Gazette." |
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Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 47, 26 April 1884, Page 4
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204A Novel Punishment for Schoolboys. Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 47, 26 April 1884, Page 4
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