Here’s an amusing article about a school in Britain that has started using classical music to punish misbehaving students. It’s normal practice of course to punish such students by giving them detention, but the school is apparently aiming at making detention more unpleasant by piping in classical music into the hall. According to the headmaster, this seems to be working as infractions of school rules have dropped by 60 percent since he started the practice.

Once again, I’m not really a listener of classical music but I do appreciate the intellectual achievement in it, so even I feel a little sad that the pendulum has swung so far that not only do youngsters actively hate it, but that a school is willing to exploit this fact and use it as a form of punishment.