PILLOW FIGHT AND CANING IN SCHOOL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1924, Page 5

PILLOW FIGHT AND CANING IN SCHOOL

ASSAULT SUMMONS AGAINST’, MASTER ”,

LONDON, Oct. 28

A pillow fight ai*ong the boys ,at Lansdowne College, Wilbury Road, Hove, was interrupted by the arrival of the master, Mr Albert Berman, with a cane.

One of the pillow-fighters,, a boy named Mark Levy, received a caning, q.nd afterwards disappeared from the' school. At Hove Police Court yesterday .’thpe master was summonsed for assaulting the boy. Arf

Levy, it was said, wont to the school last May. He was highly strung and nervous, and a medical specialist had declared that he was not to receive corporal punishment. After the thrashing the master wrote ■to the bovfs. father, expressing sorrow and shame for what had happened, and asking for forgiveness. The letter stated, that ho did not mean to punish the boy as lie bad done, but the boys exasperated him every night. * He added in his letter: “I have abolished corporal punishment in my establishment for ever,'and I am heartily sorry that I let my temper get the better of me.”

Berman said the boy was a perfect nuisance and insulted him in front of tho other boys arid incited the boys to rebellion. >

Tho Magistrates decided that the punishment- was not excessive, • and dismissed the case. \