Teaching Tales :Menzies 3

Menzies was one of those schools with several multi story teaching blocks. Maths was taught on the third floor. The block had two flights of stairs, one for girls the other for boys. I was standing at my class room dooor on dAy waiting for the class to arive. A fifth form girl walked up the stairs, she was wearing her own version of school uniform. This involved a very Short skirt and knee length leather boots. SuddEnly a lad ran up behind her, slid his hand up her thigh and under the hem of her skirt. She turned and gave him an almighty punch in the face. He fell backwards and rolled and bounced down to the first landing. I walked across. I could see no serious injury but he would have a black eye and several bruises by the next day. he jumped up and apologised. I explained that there was no point apologising to me - the girl had gone off to her lesson. This was the first time I used my procedure for such events - a procedure that has served me me well over many years. I wrote a full account of what had happened and got them both to sign and date it as a true record. I then reported everything to my auperiors in case of rpercussions. My superiors took the view that justice had been done. I suppose these days thy would both have been sent on awareness raising, anger management etc. now I havE had my fill of awareness rising and there have been times when I would have preferred punch in the face.