My PE teacher told of a time when there was a big bully in his class. One day in PE the teacher brought in two pairs of boxing gloves and put one pair on the bully and one pair on the guy most likely to give him a good fight. The bully was eager to beat up on someone. After he went a round with the guy the bully started to pull off the gloves when the teacher told him to keep them on, he was going to fight everyone in the class. After going going through about half the class, the bully was getting his butt kicked. By the time he got to the end, the littlest guys in the class were beating the crap out of him. The teacher looked at him and said, “If I ever hear of you bullying anyone ever again, you are going to get another boxing lesson”. That ended the bully’s reign of terror. That was in the late 1960s. Today, the teacher would be fired and possibly prosecuted.
My PE teacher got tired of 2 guys who were always threatening to fight each other. Took us all to the wrestling room and put us in a circle, “I’m tired of you bit@hing like a couple of old ladies, we’re going to settle it right now.” After they stood around telling the other guy to swing first the coach yelled, “you 2 pu$$ies start fighting or I’m going to kick both your a$$es.”
It wasn’t much of a fight, but it ended their tough guy acts. Today Coach Bishop would be fired on the spot and locked up for good.
Sounds like one of my PE teachers in the early sixties. Some clown who had mouthed off to any other teacher or bullied other kids got introduced to the game of flinch.
Mr.S had played semi-pro baseball and boxed.
Mr.S caught the miscreant in the hall and it was game on. Kid always got the first turn...never to regain it. Mr.S continued smacking one hand, both hands, teasing to cause a flinch, bam. It ended when the kids hands shook uncontrolablly.
No one ever risked having to play a second time.
“The teacher looked at him and said, “If I ever hear of you bullying anyone ever again, you are going to get another boxing lesson”.
That is a great story. I witnessed a similar situation in junior high PE class. A class bully who was really a head case was caught towel snapping a small kid who was easy prey. The coach/teacher made the bully stand before the whole PE class buck naked and receive the most impressive towel snapping routine I have ever seen. It mostly worked.