Early 1980's (I was 12)
We used to have an ice-cream van park in the playground at lunch. No criminal checks on the driver, and as well as selling ice-creams, he used to sell individual B&H, Rothmans and Marlboro to the kids.

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

I'm quite a bit older than FH and in my youth the local café used to sell Domino cigarettes in packets of four.

Physics teach who had a mean arm with a chalkboard eraser (the wooden kind), or when you forgot your PE kit and were forced to wear a provided girls outfit(skirt, blouse) and change in front of the whole class, no that never happened to me, and didnt cost me thousands in visits to a shrink to get past it...

I had one of those wooden blackboard rubbers thrown at me by a teacher because he was sick of telling me not to swing back on my chair. It missed my head by about a foot, the dent in the wall it hit was there years till the day I left!!
When I told my dad expecting him to march in the school and knock the teacher out, he just said “I expect you were sodding about and deserved it because you can be an annoying little s***!!”

Made in Bromley

I had the slipper once for kicking the flaps that covered the holes the tennis nets went in in the playground!! I thought this was a bit harsh, but I suppose it was the 85th time I’d been told not to do it!!

Made in Bromley

went to ashburton(now the f***ing oasis academy) early 70s.
was wacked on arse by PE teacher with plimsole for forgetting jock strap.
dragged out of seat by history teacher by that bit of hair by ear ole & same teacher took me out to a barren bit between buidings to infer he could beat me up if he chose as no witnesses.
I saw a deputy head grab a lad by his throat in the teachers corridor, another deputy punch a lad in the guts so that he dropped to his knees and spewed and just general throwing chalk board erasers at people.
spiteful w***ers a lot of 'em.
oh yes, forgot, some of the younger teachers were f***ing the 4th & 5th year girls.
It was the 70's....

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.