MILWAUKEE — It would have been captivating television, if only someone had used a video camera to follow around the folksy West Virginia-born hitting coach and his flaky Dominican pupil through minor league outposts and on to Cleveland, their profiles soaring together.
The RJC's aim is to stimulate debate about different approaches to discipline in schools, amid what appears to be growing support for zero-tolerance regimes that punish pupils for minor breaches of regulations.
Most schools do not have teachers that are trained to identify pupils with minor clinical, psychological and physiological problems.
As a pupil at a minor public school, I admired it as the independent sector's market leader.
Cruise is like a pupil at a minor public school who is expected to shake hands with the headmaster who has just caned him.
AS A pupil at a minor English boarding school, one of the rituals your correspondent dreaded most was morning chapel: 600 boys and a dozen berobed "masters" crammed into a cold, dim chamber for ten minutes of dreary hymns and prayers.
Aimed at secondary pupils, it covers minor injuries, dislocations, fractures and loss of consciousness.
A collaboration with one of his father's pupils, Phil Springer, produced a minor hit, "Teasin'" (recorded by the Beverly Sisters), which brought Adler to the attention of Frank Loesser, composer of Guys and Dolls.
The minor in question was one of her pupils at a Paris lycée.
Violence, he says, was institutionalised at Oundle – "pupils were beaten bloody for minor transgressions" – which eventually led Dickinson and a friend to urinate in the headmaster's green beans before a formal dinner, in retaliation.
