Belts and bullies

Once again the subject of child abuse rears its head [Sunday Post last week].

As someone in my seventies I went through mainstream education from the mid 50s to the early 60s and hardly a week passed without mass punishment. Most teachers owned a Loch Gelly belt and any minor misdemeanour resulted in two strokes. Did they enjoy it? Did it serve any purpose?

It is good that some teachers are being called to account for their misdeeds, but thousands of bullies and worse got away Scot free. J Young, Glasgow