Private schools 1990’s

Does anyone else have first hand experience of corporal punishment in UK private schools in the 1990’s?

There were, undoubtedly, some private schools that continued to use corporal punishment into the 1990s and right up to the ban. They were, however, in the minority. The majority of both private and state schools in the UK had already stopped using corporal punishment well before the state school CP ban in 1987. Even those who did use it in the mid 1980s used it far less than in the past.

There was a spate of independent ‘Christian Schools’ that sprang up in the 1970s/80s that still used it. Many used biblical references to CP including the much misquoted ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’ This. I suppose followed the fervour for CP in Catholic schools the world over in the past. I am given to understand that other non Christian religious schools used CP too.

It should also be remember that school and parental corporal punishment was, in the more distant past, not dissimilar, although there were no proper guidelines as to how parents punished   .

My school was a private non Christian religious school and corporal punishment was used up until the ban for both boys and girls although most parents didn’t use it at home as far as I know from my friends.

Ch8 wrote:My school was a private non Christian religious school and corporal punishment was used up until the ban for both boys and girls although most parents didn’t use it at home as far as I know from my friends.

Much as I already said, some schools continued to use firm painful CP long after parents of their pupils had stopped using it.

In the 1950s/60s many parents still spanked bottoms of both girls and boys. I grew up in the 50s/60s and felt the occasional tanning at home and my wife had the slipper from her mother back then.

In our school the older parents were fine with severe corporal punishment being used. The headmaster would give the bat to boys and girls from year three and up. When the headmaster retired in 1994 the new headmaster under pressure from younger parents started using the plimsoll. Though he reduced the age so even year two pupils could get it. My younger sister got the slipper in year two together with two of her friends for going round the block during break time.

Ch8:  Year two, what age was your sister then?  Was that her first experience of CP?

six of the best wrote:Ch8:  Year two, what age was your sister then?  Was that her first experience of CP?

Almost seven years old. That was her first and only experience with corporal punishment as it was banned a year later.

Ch8 wrote:

six of the best wrote:Ch8:  Year two, what age was your sister then?  Was that her first experience of CP?

Almost seven years old. That was her first and only experience with corporal punishment as it was banned a year later.

Very young to be slippered.

six of the best wrote:

Ch8 wrote:

six of the best wrote:Ch8:  Year two, what age was your sister then?  Was that her first experience of CP?

Almost seven years old. That was her first and only experience with corporal punishment as it was banned a year later.

Very young to be slippered.

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It was the girls headmistress who decided on the punishment. The boys headmaster was the one who carried it out. Although the usual punishment at that age was smacks with the hand, the headmistress wanted the slipper due to the severity of what they had done.

what does” private non Christian religious school” mean… was it an Islamic or Hindi school?

Hi, I think I might have been at school with you. Was your school in North Finchley? P H?

Yes that’s the one

I went to that school starting in 1975 until 1987. I got the cricket bat three times from M K in his office. Also a few hidings with his hand. Boys got it more often than girls but I hated him for what he did to me. The bat was unbearable.

Please answer the survey found at the top of the school corporal punishment forum. I’m sure everyone would be interested!

jennysanders you say hidings with his hands by that you mean spankings where they traditional over the knee ones off  m k in his office

He would wallop your backside a few times with you just standing straight.

jennysaunders boys and girls did they always get it on a clothed bottom

Girls always got it on the back of the skirt. Boys sometimes bare but only until around seven years old. Girls sometimes were made to lower tights.

jennysaunders did you ever see one of the bare bottom spankings of one of the boys

No. Boys and girls were in separate buildings but girls were sent to the boys headmaster for corporal punishment.

Readers should bear in mind that Ch8 and jennysanders are very closely related.

larry1951 wrote:Readers should bear in mind that Ch8 and jennysanders are very closely related.

 whats “very”

I’d guess Ch8’s North Finchley school was a Jewish school. Hence the ‘non Christian religious school’ .

Hello kevinont,

In the terminology customarily employed by The Forum Management ‘very closely related’ generally means that they are the same person.  And I can tell you from experience going back to 2006 that The Forum Management do not employ guesswork in arriving at such a conclusion.

Not perhaps boyfriend/girlfriend sharing a computer? 

Hello AliceOttley.

The sharing of a computer between two genuine contributors to the Forum is clearly a possibility.  However as far as I recall an actual instance thereof would be a first!

And were that the case in this instance there would have been no point in contributions #11 & #12.

The probable record for claimed computer sharing here is probably held by one of the fun pesters who claimed vast numbers of female cousins all over the world who mysteriously visited him every day to use his computer.

If Ch8 did actually attend a school whose nature was as claimed, they really don’t need the sock puppet to make their account of interest here.  But I wonder if they did attend such a school.  This is certainly a case where it might reasonably be expected that the school would be identified, see the latter part of the sound principles set out in the very early post here.

Another_Lurker wrote:Hello kevinont,

In the terminology customarily employed by The Forum Management ‘very closely related’ generally means that they are the same person.  And I can tell you from experience going back to 2006 that The Forum Management do not employ guesswork in arriving at such a conclusion.

Huntsville, Alabama Christian school paddling of an 8-year-old.  Less than a month ago.

https://whnt.com/2019/03/26/huntsville- … -next-day/

The real mystery about corporal punishment is how prevalent it may be in faith based schools.  Where little freedom is allowed the natural proclivities of teens is to test the limits but if they do so it is at their on peril.

Here is an answer to a question that puts the practice into perspective.

If the spanking is done by a female administrator, and if the punishment fits the rule she violated and no more then 5 swats, I say let her feel the consequences. If you step in you are setting a precedent that mom/dad or some higher authority will rescue her and thats bad. Ok? Let her learn, I know its not easy as her mom but its the right thing. Let the bun burning begin mom,……..

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde … 814AAD85hi

In a faith based school there  would be less chance of clothing adjustments due to Christian modesty.  Men are often the pastor and they rule the roost but a woman would be more likely to be present.  It is often called corporal correction and not corporal punishment.

Chastised a little these two young ladies shall be greatly blessed for God tried them and found them worthy of himself.  As gold in the furnace he spanked them.

Enough talk.

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Let the bun burning begin.

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