But what if I had believed in the efficacy of CP? I once asked myself whether, if I had sincerely believed in the merits and morality of corporal punishment, and hadn’t enjoyed administering it in the way I did, I would have used it more often, less often, or about about the same. I spent quite some time considering this, including examining many actual cases of slipperings I had handed out, and the inescapable conclusion I reached was that in many of those cases, I would not have used corporal punishment. That is not to say that the punishments in those cases breached the rules, because they didn’t, strictly speaking. But if I approached those cases purely from a perspective of what the purpose of CP was supposed to be, including the deterrent element, I would have simply given mere warnings to many of those girls, instead of the slipperings I did give them.
Corporal Punishment References from Buy Gone Days22
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Corporal Punishment References128
St Columbas Comp Liverpool Helen Gaunt Miss Fennerty hated me and I had the cane every afternoon in the...
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School Corporal Punishment History76
He was forced to announce this reversal and his ‘resignation’ to the whole school at an informal assembly held...
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C.P.for bedwetting7
Sometimes the dorm would be full other times there were always up to ten bw at any time. lights...
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Corporal Punishment in the Sixties6
t was only boys who were punished at my junior school,( by that teacher) and I also have no...
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Corporal Punishment & Fear2
My Grandmother seethed with anger when she recalled being struck with a ruler (hand) at her school. Many European...
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Outdoor School Corporal Punishment3
Five more followed, each time preceded by a run up and a puff of dust from the pupil’s unwashed...
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Caned by the Prefect12
One particular instance of a prefect slippering was when one of the boys returned to the class in tears;...
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Corporal Punishment References144
St Malachys High Antrim Julie I got the strap for walking up the stairs on the wrong side by...