The Three Students: So Painful A Scandal

[gardnerhill]

Title: The Three Students: So Painful A Scandal
Author: gardnerhill                         
Word Count: 60
Rating:  G
Warning: None
Summary: The Victorian-school definition, that is.

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My friend read the headmaster’s incident book. “Two lads setting a lower form on fire.”

Soames hand-waved. “Good wholesome character-building.”

“Four deaths due to hazing last year. An upper-form’s servant boy beaten nearly to death.” Holmes fixed Soames with a stare. “But a student looking at an exam paper –“

“Is a scandal from which St. Luke may never recover!”

Comments

[alafaye]

Oh, yes. This is still happening today.

Well done!

[gardnerhill]

That's the kind of "good wholesome" British-schoolboy training that turned them into monsters in 3 days in LORD OF THE FLIES.

[alafaye]

O.O Yes. I hadn't even thought about that.