Citizenship at School - School Discipline

★★★★ · In An Alternate Universe... · donwert · 2010-10-14

Strange little film from 1921, '22, or '23 about classroom discipline. We can tell the era because the classroom has a picture of Warren Harding (that paragon of personal discipline!) on the wall. When a tubby boy about 12 years old is caught cheating, instead of being paddled until he can't sit--and then sent home where he'd be paddled again until he couldn't sleep---is told to write a report saying why he was wrong. Oh, and no tennis---as if this chubby kid would care! This film, which perhaps was made for teacher training, must have seemed weird and hilarious in the early 20s. Corporal…