I went to a grammar school in the Midlands from 1958-1965 and there was definitely a change in attitudes to cp during that time. When I started, the head and deputy walked around with canes and used them frequently. Prefects would slipper boys for the most trivial of offences – socks too light a shade of grey, talking while waiting in line, not wearing a cap, tie too loose – and masters would slipper boys in front of the class for any slight breach of classroom discipline. Actually masters would use all kinds of implements to beat boys’ bottoms, especially the science masters with all that equipment available – meter rulers, rubber tubing. And as for PE – we wore those thin gym shorts and the PE master walked around all the time with a plimsoll and used it on any boy that he thought wasn’t trying hard enough.
Wrong time and Wrong place7
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The Cane and the Double Standard54
How much influence Britain had on corporal punishment policy in Australian schools is an interesting question to begin...
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School Punishment Book28
It has remained my belief that public punishments are much, much more effective and it is even possible to...
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Cane Marks11
Surely they still have crime. When visiting certain markets we were warned by our friends to be careful of...
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Peters School Discipline1
The following doesn’t relate to any specific incident, it just explains how boys and girls, Naughty enough to be...
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Mrs Wilkins62
But there was more to it than the normal acceptance of a well-deserved punishment. Billy didn’t really understand why...
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You Have the Choice2
Out into the corridor now, moving slowly along to the west staircase because that is the one nearest...
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A Mothers Paddle in the 1940s
In the late nineteen forties, it was common practice for parents to punish their offspring with spanking. However, I...
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This going to hurt you six times more 28
One of my school masters was a keen civil war re enactment guy, so we all went to watch...