Sentence examples for school beatings from inspiring English sources

Are school beatings a mainly private affair?

The retention of corporal punishment in many British schools is blamed today for the "disturbing" amount of pornography now on sale which dwells on school beatings.

These school beatings were perhaps my father's first political encounter with this racial order a society where everyone you knew was Mexican except for the people in charge.

(AP) CAMDEN: SENTENCE IN SCHOOL BEATING -- A 15-year-old student at Cherry Hill High School who pleaded guilty to helping beat a classmate unconscious was given two years' probation and ordered to write a letter of apology, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The films, making poignant use of interviews with victims, focused on the system in midcentury and presented a horrifying litany of torments the young people suffered at the schools: beatings, semi-starvation, insufficient clothing, filthy living conditions, overwork, emotional abuse and sexual assault.

Avoiding explicit references to sexual abuse, he portrays the all-pervasive use of physical punishment: canings from the priests in the boys' boarding school; the beatings regularly given to a schoolgirl by her father.

He said: "In 30 years' time, I want people to be able to look back at this government and see that we paid down our debts, helped create millions of jobs, sorted out welfare, made our schools world-beating and built homes for a generation.

Through the eyes of a number of middle and high schoolers, the producers show uncut footage of bus ride beatings, school yard name calling and all kinds of unspeakable abuse happening in schools across the country.

Exhausted, they regularly dozed at school, which drew beatings.

Children also told those who conducted the survey that teachers used corporal punishment and that they had left school to escape beatings.

Now living with adoptive parents, his daily commute to school included daily beatings from the 13th Street gangs that menaced South Philadelphia.