In it he commented on the system of fagging in public schools. He is fagging for George Rigby, a prefect in the Sixth Form. In this respect, the sack system may differ from the English practice of Fagging. Older boys expected respect and obedience from younger boys, although not fagging. These practices, known as fagging, were partially phased out of most houses in the 1970s. Registration at birth, corporal punishment, and fagging have been consigned to the past. However, unofficial fagging did persist beyond this change for some time. Fagging was sometimes associated with sexual abuse. Fagging carried with it well-defined rights and duties on both sides. Fagging is recorded as having taken place at Repton into the late 20th century.