Later the teacher informed the headmaster that he was not surprised that the pupil had defied the instruction to return to his lessons because he was already proving himself a cause of indiscipline in the class. He recommended punishment and perhaps a note also to his parents. He was punished.

The pupil though already hurt, was relieved of the apprehension about an additional punishment at home when it appeared certain to him later that no communication was however sent to his parents by the school.

Antipathy.
The pupil feigned (pretended) severe headache and absented himself in the school to avoid the following period of the geography teacher. It was obvious that he was developing antipathy (a bitter dislike) towards the school as his only alternative to his emotional reaction to the injustice and humiliation meted out to him.

Incidents of open injustice and humiliation are normally wrongly supposed to be accepted as a fair-play and a normal part of the school-experience by the victims according to the parents' antiquated adage that: 'the teacher is always right'. It falls upon the victims however to suffer silently the agony of the memory of the humiliation for long periods of time while hoping that the news of the incidents do not reach the ears of their parents. Their avenues for a redress do not exist.

There happens to be also other avenues of injustice which are not uncommon in the school. Boys are subject to intimidation or punishment at the hands of "some" teachers when boys cannot help themselves being boys. Boys tend to be lively. and some even more than others, and this is often misinterpreted naively as misbehaviour.

Highly Spirited
A teacher need hardly take it serious if, as an example, a pupil having raised his hand high chooses to wave it in the air vigorously to seek preference for answering a question that was directed to the class. To keep ignoring him purposely for being highly spirited is to be unkind. to warn him is to question his healthy sense of rivarly. A tactful response to put an immediate stop to this, if need be, is to announce: "Those who are not sure of the answer can still raise their hands but wave them in the air; however, preference will be given to chose who think that they know the answer".

And there was this pupil who was chided and then mentioned in the assembly hall by the headmaster. His serious misconduct was to be imaginative and venture into some exercise of creativity. Toying with a pen, he drew spectacles across the face of a teacher peering from his picture. The pupil had made a use of his own copy of the monthly school magazine for the exercise and for his own personal satisfaction of the moment. He might as well added too to give the face a distinguished.