Badly behaved, you fail.

[Hagar]

Italy brings back a law originally proposed by Benito Mussolini where high school students fail the year for aggression and bad behaviour to teaching staff.

Italy revives policy of failing badly behaved pupils to ‘bring back respect’

‘Grades for conduct’, similar to a law introduced by Mussolini, aims to tackle rising aggression towards teachers

www.theguardian.com

 

[Hagar]

We just got thrashed and told not to do it again.

 

[Hagar]

If only it had built moral fibre or a conversation worth sharing

Like a comparison between a thin whippy cane flexible enough to pass across your bottom without appreciable deceleration or something a bit sturdier that lands with a solid thunk.

Both left a weal unbroken by and large that disappeared over several days but the recipient could feel it as he sat for several days more,