WorkoutDan and Study Hall

[laurenmcoakley]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "alchemillalady" 
<alchemillalady at a...> wrote:
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>I think Mike Newell's attempt to convey the British Boarding school 
>environment included the notion that these closed environments could 
>be rather brutal.  Teachers did not refrain from physical punishment  
>(some were almost sadistic with it) and students were sometimes 
>horribly cruel to one another, as only unsupervised children can be   
>(such as the scene in the cloister where every passerby is taunting 
>Harry, including Cedric's friends).
> 
> --alchemilla

And now Lauren:
Is this really ONLY characteristic of British boarding schools?  I 
went to school in the states, and before there were laws about 
teachers handing out corporal punishment, I seem to remember being hit 
on the hand with a ruler once.  And kids being horribly cruel to each 
other I think occurs in every school environment... I remember some 
that were horribly cruel to me... I went to public school, by the way.