Parents could be proscuted & fined fr non attendance

[Zurdo]

In the 3rd Form we had a maths test every Maths period, those who failed got 2 whacks with the cane. I cheated of course, but was soon found out. So, no, you can't beat it into people either. And next period would be Tech Drawing where I was doing practical geometry, but maths teachers are not practical people, so they couldn't tie up the theoretical world with the practical world. For me, maths is an everyday part of my engineering world, it's not stuff done on paper.