random memory just surfaced.
Much like
the top year (12-13 yo) had a side room to use.
As time dragged on it became tradition in this room that occasionally one (self-selecting) boy would start to chant “Oxfam reject, Oxfam reject”.
Everyone else would pick it up “Oxfam REJECT, Oxfam REJECT”.
Then another (self-selecting) boy would lean back and be fed hand-over-hand by everyone else out of the (ground floor) window.
This is what happens when you have a load of 13 year olds with time on their hands and no stimuli.
TBH I strongly doubt that schools like this made it as far as the 90s. Years ago I went to a talk given by a later headmaster who basically said that they had all had to change radically after some sort of exposé by Esther Rantzen.