Lines (punishment)

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Lines at a school typically refers to a form of punishment either meted out by schoolmasters or prefects at an establishment such as a British public school.

Sometimes the text is made up and specified in advance by the person who sent the child for this punishment, or there may be a standard "school line" which the child is to use.

For example, at The Leys School in the UK, in the 1980s the standard school line was supposed to be written over and over again on a blank sheet of A4 paper at least 30 times within the space of half an hour early in the morning before school began. The line to repeat over and over was "How displeasing it is to a well regulated mind to see a boy, who ought to know better, disporting himself at improper moments".

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