This particular Saturday was like any other. We set up and started practising at about 8.45, and decided to make a second coffee at about 10.15. It was a hot Saturday and I drew the short straw to take the coffee to her. This involved going across to the main school, almost the length of the main corridor to the room where detention took place. I took the coffee. On entering the room I sensed something unusual.
Sent for the Cane22
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Why Mikey Likes Eating At Home18
The women and girls looking from the partially ajar door saw the brush land, the impact leaving a big...
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Corporal Punishment in the Classroom1
At junior school, the headmistress was rather a scary woman who terrified even the boys. Our usual easy-going...
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Primary School Corporal Punishments14
I have comparatively little experience of the ruler. In secondary school only a couple of teachers used it and...
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Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage23
I believe that co-education has been a protection for boys in that female eyes would see through the layers...
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Jewelry and Just Deserts 2
“What’s the matter with Michael and school?” she wondered. The call bothered her until her secretary returned and...
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Chastisement Across the Ages28
The summons itself arrived a few days later, and Wildman appeared in court on a charge of obscene libel....
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More Friends Reunited CP References25
I remember being caned by Miss Archer for swinging on the wash basins. Linda Goodall Blackmoor Park Junior School...
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Informing your parents3
At my school the report books yes they were ‘books’ so the reports were filed sequentially, contained a list...