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personal interview the Grand Dame. This in itself was
unprecedented. The Grand Dame lived in isolation
from the main school leaving administration and
discipline to the twenty-one members of the Posh.
During the interview the Grand Dame showed
Debs her end of year report card. At the bottom of
the card there was a section for the Grand Dame to
assign a cumulative grade for academics, sporting
achievement and behavior. Grading was scaled
between A and E. In the first two boxes Deborah had
been graded A+ for her schoolwork and her
performance at sports. However, in the behavior box
the Grand Dame had crossed through the scores and
simply written DEPLORABLE in red ink.
Deborah was informed that during the
forthcoming school year she would be required to
carry a special book with her at all times and at the
end of each class she would present it to the
presiding Dame to have her behavior graded. She
would no longer be placed on the menu by the
Dames which at least would have given her the
opportunity to defend herself. Instead, she was
informed, in the event that she scored three grades of
C- or less during any given week she would receive a
mandatory beating on Friday evening.
Foolishly Deborah continued to flirt with fate
and during the first week following her return to
school she accumulated three bad grades. The Grand
Dame sentenced her to six strokes of the cane. In the
ensuing weeks she continued to fail to meet the
performance criteria and each week her punishment
was increased by an additional stroke. By the end of
the fourth week she was sentenced to the maximum
dosage of nine strokes and was warned that she