Moon and Venus
Archive for July 2018
The boot’s on the other foot now
In the dim & distant it wasn't the staff who needed protection...
From 1976 to 1981 we had to put up will all sorts of verbal and physical abuse there... usually from "Greasy Reesy" (Mr. G. J. Rees - Vice Principal and Sexist Thug) who, if he didn't agree that your footwear complied with the school uniform rules, would berate you in front of whoever was there and confiscate said footwear on-the-spot. He would put it in a dedicated full-wall pigeon-hole unit for all to see, and further humiliate you by making you spend the rest of the day with only socks on your feet regardless of weather, terrain or activity.
At the end of the school day you might get said footwear back if you grovelled enough, but by then you'd have missed the school bus, so it was always a toss-up between walking 4 miles home with shoes, or going on the bus barefoot because your socks had been worn through.
Boots would be confiscated for the rest of the term.
Of course, his policy applied only to the boys.
