I was punished at home for getting bad reports – my mother wasn’t worried about my actual academic marks, but in each subject we also got a letter grade from A to E representing the amount of effort the teacher felt we’d made and if I got D or Es, then I got punished (I got money for As).

The school I attended from 1985 to 1988 started officially recording corporal punishment in 1986 (we got the strap at my school) and from that date onwards, the fact that you’d been strapped was meant to be in your report. But as the vast majority of strappings were never officially recorded, most of the time they weren’t on your report either. Out of the numerous strappings I got at school only one was recorded in the Strap Book and that one was on my report.

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