I was the given three hard, stinging whacks with a big black rubber soled plimsol which really brought tears to my eyes.
My first caning arrived during my second year at the school, so I would have been about fourteen, three of us got caught smoking in the loo’s one break time, I wouldn’t mind but I wasn’t really a smoker I just foolishly accepted a drag on a cigarette just as the teacher on break duty walked in. The three of us were marched along to the headmistress’s study, now the fear plus the fact I hadn’t had time to take my pee before being caught, was putting me in great danger of wetting myself, the fear increasing as we were admitted in to the head’s study.
Fluids of Discipline2
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Whackings & Afterwards4
At home, though, it was always bare bottom. Mum would take down my trousers and pants and take her...
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This going to hurt you six times more 8
In the case of the cane, The first two weren’t too bad (that wasn’t true when I got my...
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Six-of-best14
There have been a number of cases in which complaints of excessive punishment made against schools or teachers have...
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The Slipper in UK Schools2
Back in the 1960s it was simply taken for granted. Anybody who thought it was morally wrong to hit...
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How Did You Address Your Teachers?4
Of course, in school, up to the sixth form, as was traditional in Boys’ schools at that time we...
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Encounters at Boarding School in the 1960s11
I then felt the slipper touch my bottom before moving and suddenly there was a loud noise followed by...
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The Changing Way of Schooling3
it’s nonsense to suggest that teachers in the 1960s weren’t interested in hugging a hurt student or comforting them....
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Outside the Heads Office35
I was collected from my final exam by one of the secretaries who told me the headmaster wanted to...