It was sam Sylvester, a teacher at Hawkwood school, who started the trouble. just along the road from Hawkwood where was another school called Greycoats parents paid a lot of money to send their children to Greycoats,and did well in examinations at Hawkwood the parents did not pay any money and the children were much better at fighting than at passing examinations. They were happy about that. Passing examinations meant hard work, and who wanted to study every evening?