I secretly witnessed 2 girls from the year below getting slippered by a right hard case called Mrs Turley. She slippered me ..”once” I was mad at school but I wasn’t that mad that I was prepared to let her catch me again. I thought I had escaped from being slippered by female teachers (very embarassing at that age). A slippering off Davis was not pleasant but off Turley…that was just too much!
One more thing,I find it interesting when people say they were whacked with a black plimsoll at their secondary school. At my secondary school (1974-79) there wasn’t a black pump in sight, everyone wore white pumps until about 1977 onwards when trainers became the thing. We still were only allowed to wear plimsolls in the gym because trainers marked the floor, which suited me fine because I loved wearing my plimsolls and still do.
The slipper at school3
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Receiving Corporal Punishment as an Adult out of Curiosity49
He had me bend over an old padded bench loosely securing my wrists and ankles. He did not take...
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Old-Fashioned Terms for a Caning9
Thrashing. More often by search word in NZ by Papers Past, as I mention recently and swishing as...
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Why Corporal Punishment Has to Had to Go79
In the South the issue is intimately bound up in cultural and religious identity, and ties in with the...
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Caning from of the Times30
The witness had intended to give him nine strokes, but only gave him “something less than six.” These...
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Georgina of the Fifth33
It was a small, low, creeper-covered place, built behind a sheltering spur of the hill, to protect it from...
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Prep School Memories4
Four tearful pupils soon spread the word and behavior improved dramatically until Mr Pearces right arm was properly healed....
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School Discipline & The Johnsons 2
It seems to me that what we need is a ‘protective’ legal shield for teachers as they have in...
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The Cane in UK Schools4
In many cases the use of corporal punishment in schools was at the discretion of the Head, following on...