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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Caned by the Prefect32
I remember a couple of years ago looking out a window and seeing an incident of bullying. A large,...
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Hand Spanking12
When I was a child, I was often puzzled as to why they did this, and it still puzzles...
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Two of the Three R’s in 1956 7
I was also withdrawn for a while, but blossomed out at the primary school level. However, at Grammar school,...
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Corporal Punishment Comparing Impliments15
That said there were private after-hours Tawsings given on satin shorts and bare bottoms. This was used by one...
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Corporal Punishment References from Buy Gone Days5
Mary’s comment about the teachers only wanting to look at the girl’s knickers suggests the possibility of male teachers...
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School Day Memories9
The slippering incident happened one day after hockey. Me and two friends were the last off the pitch by...
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A Mothers Paddle in the 1940s
In the late nineteen forties, it was common practice for parents to punish their offspring with spanking. However, I...
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Caning Offences6
It would have been less easy to guarantee caning by the headmaster. At the time I’d have bet that...