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Jun 20, 2002#1
Anyone ever met up with an old school teacher who spanked them during the school days ?
If so, did you discuss it with them or were you too embarrassed ?
I’d love to meet up with a couple of female teachers from my Primary School days and ask them why they DIDN’T ever spank me 🙁
Matty
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David
Jun 29, 2002#2
I met the Headmaster of my prep school at the school’s fete with my younger brother (who is 2 years younger and was still at the school) and my parents. He had caned me twice in the past, the last time about 2 years before. He asked me how I was getting on at my new school etc etc. and had a quick chat with my parents. The caning was never mentioned of course and at the time my parents did not know that the kindly old man they were talking to had whacked their son’s bottom. No letters home from private schools, it was a matter between you and the Headmaster, quite right to.
The deputy head who caned me on my hands at my state school lived in the same town and I saw him occasionally in the town and once or twice in local pubs etc. I always said hello and asked him how he was etc. He moved away when he retired and I have not seem him for years.
It is quite likely that neither man could remember caning me anyway, they must have both whacked a lot of boys over the years and it was certainly nothing special or unusual.
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Robert
Jun 30, 2002#3
Anyone ever met up with an old school teacher who spanked them during the school days ?
If so, did you discuss it with them or were you too embarrassed ?
I’d love to meet up with a couple of female teachers from my Primary School days and ask them why they DIDN’T ever spank me 🙁
Matty
I was spanked by the headmistress at my infants school. For a 7-year-old who wasn’t smacked at home it was a painful experience. Regardless of that, I remembered her as a scary woman who generally shouted and stamped her foot a lot. She seemed to pick us up on the most trivial matters and was the archetypal “dragon”.
About 9 years later, aged 15/16, I attended the opening of new school building at my old infants school. She was still the headmistress. Two things struck me. First, that I was now bigger and taller than her and it seemed ridiculous that I had ever fitted across her lap for a spanking. The second was that this “dragon” was smiling and chatting to the various guests present and actually appeared to be a civilised human being.
I also wondered if she still used the same methods of discipline as it was now 1983 or 1984 and CP, though still legal, seemed to be on the wane in most schools.
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matt
Jul 01, 2002#4
Anyone ever met up with an old school teacher who spanked them during the school days ?
If so, did you discuss it with them or were you too embarrassed ?
I’d love to meet up with a couple of female teachers from my Primary School days and ask them why they DIDN’T ever spank me 🙁
Matty
from the US. I ran into the principal that paddled me I think about nine times in jr high. A couple of those were the whole class for just a couple whacks. My worst was ten, for fighting.
Anyway, It was a few years latter, I was in college. We just said hello etc. I do remember thinking he seemed a lot smaller than I remembered. A friend has a son at the school. He said he’s still whacking (private school parents sign a letter..)
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Helen
Jul 02, 2002#5
Anyone ever met up with an old school teacher who spanked them during the school days ?
If so, did you discuss it with them or were you too embarrassed ?
I’d love to meet up with a couple of female teachers from my Primary School days and ask them why they DIDN’T ever spank me 🙁
Matty
Years after leaving school, I was at a county show and met a female teacher who’d caned me but I was far to embarassed to remind her of it.
I bet she’d forgotten anyway.
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Sophie
Jul 03, 2002#6
Anyone ever met up with an old school teacher who spanked them during the school days ?
If so, did you discuss it with them or were you too embarrassed ?
I’d love to meet up with a couple of female teachers from my Primary School days and ask them why they DIDN’T ever spank me 🙁
Matty
I was caned on 4 occassions by the Senior Mistress of the Girls Grammar I attended in the early 60’s. She operated a knickers only rule and the process was both humilating & very painful particularly aged nearly 18.
I attended a reunion to mark the conversion of the school to a mixed comprehensive about 15 years later. She was there having retired some years earlier and we had a great laugh about the old times and even the dreadful brown knickers. I was too embaressed to ask if she rememdered giving me the cane but I’m sure she did. Old teachers never forget – that’s me speaking from experience.
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Guest
Jul 06, 2002#7
from the US. I ran into the principal that paddled me I think about nine times in jr high. A couple of those were the whole class for just a couple whacks. My worst was ten, for fighting.
Anyway, It was a few years latter, I was in college. We just said hello etc. I do remember thinking he seemed a lot smaller than I remembered. A friend has a son at the school. He said he’s still whacking (private school parents sign a letter..)
Regarding knowing teachers or principals whom you encountered outside the school setting: my dad was the principal at my junior high school and often paddled students sent to him to be disciplined for misbehaving. When I got sent to his office along with several of my buddies for acting up in school I was treated exactly the same as my fellow miscreants; three licks of the paddle.
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Bob T.
Oct 23, 2003#8
I was caned on 4 occassions by the Senior Mistress of the Girls Grammar I attended in the early 60’s. She operated a knickers only rule and the process was both humilating & very painful particularly aged nearly 18.
I attended a reunion to mark the conversion of the school to a mixed comprehensive about 15 years later. She was there having retired some years earlier and we had a great laugh about the old times and even the dreadful brown knickers. I was too embaressed to ask if she rememdered giving me the cane but I’m sure she did. Old teachers never forget – that’s me speaking from experience.
I have never run into an old teacher. There are a few I it would be great to see. However,if I ran into Shelfy or a certain grade school teacher,it would ,up until a few years ago resulted in bloodshed.Today I don’t think so.But if the subject of CP came up,I don’t know.
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Jason
May 12, 2006#9
I was caned on 4 occassions by the Senior Mistress of the Girls Grammar I attended in the early 60’s. She operated a knickers only rule and the process was both humilating & very painful particularly aged nearly 18.
I attended a reunion to mark the conversion of the school to a mixed comprehensive about 15 years later. She was there having retired some years earlier and we had a great laugh about the old times and even the dreadful brown knickers. I was too embaressed to ask if she rememdered giving me the cane but I’m sure she did. Old teachers never forget – that’s me speaking from experience.
I had a great coach who was also our asst. principal in middle school. I was often sent out of class and would have to stand in the hall. He would often come by and know I had done something wrong for being sent out of class. He would have his paddle in his hand and take me to the boys bathroom or give me three licks in the hall. I think from 6th grade thru 8th grade he paddled me at least 15 times. I later was a science teacher and baseball coach at the same middle school where he had become principal. Once while he paddled a boy in the 7th grade and I was his witness he told me this was like old times ha!
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Mike
May 12, 2006#10
I’d like to run into a few of my old teachers. With my car!
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Jimny462
May 15, 2006#11
This is not strictly relevant to the thread but may be of interest. As a young adult I served on two committies with my old headmaster, but as he never caned me, I suppose it does not count. I am still a member of a commitee of a voluntary organisaion on which sits an 85 year old woman who occaisionally taught me at senior school, usually if the regular teacher was away. Of the eleven members of the committee nine are female, all aged over sixty. Madam President is the retired headmistress of a local junior school. Whenever the issue of child behavior has been raised, her response is to say that she never had any discipline problems “because I kept a slipper in my desk drawer”. This always causes giggles and laughter from all the other female committee members. I think this demonstrates the attitude of a cetain generation to corporal punishment.
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Steve M
May 15, 2006#12
Old Teachers never die:
They simply spanked that way!
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Slippered Sam
Jul 02, 2006#13
Old eathcers never die; they simply lose their class
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Danny
Jul 02, 2006#14
Old theatres never die either, Sam, they just have a few bad turns.
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Slippered Sam
Jul 04, 2006#15
Sorry about the typing error. (eathcers)
Old typists never die, they only lose their touch.
Old golfers never die, they only lose their b–ls.
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iankenrick
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Jun 17, 2018#16
i had a teacher in infants who spanked me across her knee when I was seven I have already posted the story on here but years later I would still see her round town where I lived I held no malice against her for what she did as she must of thought it appropriate I never asked her about if she remembered it as she would of long forgotten any how she is no longer with us now
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Another_Lurker
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Jun 18, 2018#17
Encounters in later years with a teacher who punished you
Hello iankenrick,
I think that sort of thing may have happened to quite a few people in the days when teachers tended to live near the schools they taught in. Nowadays if course they live as far from the school as possible and drive varied and circuitous routes home, taking precautions in case a disgruntled kid or aggrieved parent follows them to find where they live with a view to burning their house down. It wasn’t like that when I was at primary school. I knew where all my teachers lived, Everybody did. In those days teachers lived locally and had status in the community, not far behind Doctors and Priests.
After I started secondary school I became acquainted with a boy from outside the town I lived in. One day I accompanied him when he was calling on his aunt, who lived in my town. She turned out to be none other than Miss B who 5 years before had administered the smacked leg which caused my aversion to being in receipt of SCP, and had then been my class teacher the following year. She certainly remembered me. I doubt she remembered the smacked leg, Miss B smacked lots of legs, there was a queue the time I got mine and I witnessed several more while in her class. If she did remember it she fortunately didn’t say anything in front of her nephew.
That wasn’t the only coincidence though. A year or two after that I got quite friendly with a boy who lived locally but went to a different secondary school. In that case I knew exactly what I was getting into. His mother was Mrs S, who was my class teacher at the time I got my leg smacked. As I’ve noted here in other posts I was the first person in my year group to get corporal punishment at primary school, but another boy and a girl from Mrs S’s class were just behind me in the queue. When we returned there still in tears after being punished Mrs S made us stand hands on heads in front of the class while she took the opportunity to explain to our classmates that we’d been smacked and that was what would happen to naughty boys and girls as we moved up the school.
A necessary lesson perhaps, both the smacking and the lecture. In the event I took good care it didn’t happen to me again. Not so all my classmates. The girl whose severe slippering in our last year of primary school made a big impression on me was one of those who witnessed our discomfiture and heard Mrs S’s little lecture. Mrs S herself was actually a lovely lady and a dedicated teacher. She never mentioned past failings either and was very kind to me whenever I visited her house with her son.
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2015holyfamilypenguin
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Feb 27, 2020#18
In the days of yore scholars were in later life grateful for every lick of the birch and looked kindly on teachers they swore thrash when they were fully grown.
Branches are trimmed for switches at homes in the USA where there are still more trees than boys and girls in need of discipline.
For the benefit for those that prefer to read directly from the thread and not from the link maybe someone could post the complete article available through the persistent link.
Journalists don’t write like they did in 1905. Do they?
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn … 00%2C3709/
Today at class reunions they praise the ones that paddled them many years before.
Corpus Christi 1985 yearbook. He gives his daughter her 17 swats and perhaps one to grow on.
https://images.classmates.com/yearbooks … 5/0192.jpg
http://richardwindsor.com/wp-content/up … ard10l.jpg
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Another_Lurker
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Feb 27, 2020#19
Hello American Way,
American Way wrote:
For the benefit for those that prefer to read directly from the thread and not from the link maybe someone could post the complete article available through the persistent link.
I have always taken such comments in your posts as being one of those two nations divided by a single language things. And fortunately not one which led me to have to visit the cyberspace conference room, there to assume the brace position under the Teachers’ Association notice board and await the inevitable (but fortunately virtual ????) swats from Renee, Michelle, or whichever member of ‘Teachers Who Paddle’ team was undertaking the punitive duties that day. No confusion about plagiarism, or female teachers sharing hot tubs with male students, instead just a coded request for me to perform some simple contribution related task, which is fair enough in view of my frequent claim that I’m only here for the technical stuff and not the least interested in SCP!
And as ever your every wish is my command, so here we go. I hope I’ve got this right. Sorry about the silly relative sizes. If I utilise the convenience of uploading the images to Tapatalk for display I can’t readily defeat their annoying scaling system. I’d hoped to display the images embedded in the post direct from Chronicling America. Very naughty hot linking I know, and it’s a US government site so they might send those attractive young lady Federal agents with the chains and fetters I’ve lamented missing out on in another post today, although I’m sure you pay enough taxes for them to afford the bandwidth. But although I can do the hot linked embedding on my own web pages, and in the posting box at Tapatalk, at Tapatalk the hotlinked images disappear when I preview so although I haven’t tried I’m pretty certain they wouldn’t appear in the actual post.
So second best: Images downloaded from Chronicling America but now hosted at Tapatalk. I could have downloaded one image from Chronicling America showing the whole thing, but as the final bit of the article is spatially detached from the main body there would have been a lot of extraneous junk. Of course I could have combined the two pictures in The Gimp, but this is a free service, you can’t expect fancy stuff! ????
sn87093407 1905-12-08 1 5 image 850×1100 from 160×1850 to 1420×3709.jpg (348.31KiB)
sn87093407 1905-12-08 1 5 image 425×520 from 1385×250 to 2035×815.jpg (48.56KiB)
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2015holyfamilypenguin
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Feb 27, 2020#20
Thanks. You more than acquitted yourself.
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Another_Lurker
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Feb 28, 2020#21
Hello American Way,
I am happy that it was what you required. We aim to please. Well some of the time anyway! ????
Having set up the required image it is very easy to get the associated JPG file from Chronicling America using the ‘Download this image’ link which will appear above left of the displayed image.
The trick is to get the image to contain exactly what is required, no more, no less. For that a little co-ordinate geometry, intelligent use of ratios, and URL editing may be required. If you don’t know how to do that and want to, please say and I will put an explanation in Computing Corner.
Alternately one can display the persistent link, frame and screen grab the required material and tidy it up in a graphics package, but that’s rather boring and lacks even the slight technical challenge involved in the other method.
