20 Terrible Things Every Private School Kid Went Through

15. Learning The Art Of Fagging

Fagging - that is, younger pupils acting as servants for senior pupils - is a time-honoured tradition in private schools. Your job as a fag? Serving your €˜fag master€™ food and drink, tidying his room, cleaning his clothes and running his errands

Perform badly and you're punished in the most humiliating ways imaginable; perform well and you eventually earn your own fag slave to ritually abuse. Er, thanks?

 
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