Miss Raine (The Old Girl) is worth a mention. She was not that bad a teacher and very strict with the boys. Her technique was to ask them to roll up their shirt sleeve of their right arm the upper part of which she then proceeded to slap hard about 25 times. This was quite painful. If she could not be bothered to slap an errant pupil he or she would be sent with a note to Thommo. I understand Miss Raine never disciplined girls herself which was odd. Again therapists might like to explain why a middle aged experienced female teacher who was quite happy to soundly slap boys arms would decline to discipline girls preferring instead to send them to a thirtyish male to be put across his knee and have their bottoms or upper legs spanked.
Suspect Teacher who Meted out C.P in the 1950s13
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Discipline in Public School5
At the front I could feel myself going even redder as everyone was staring at us. He positioned us...
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Mrs Wilkins10
His mother then asked him if he wanted to stay on for the rest of the summer. When Billy...
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Intensive care
“I’ll swing for that one, Alice, honest I will!” Alice didn’t need to ask her colleague to which one...
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Corporal Punishment in Mixed Secondary Modern9
Again, as I said above, this age ended with the birth of the comprehensives. For the first time, state...
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Beltings We Got Out Of7
It seemed he was looking for someone in particular. The other boys agreed and I said that he didn’t...
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Mrs Wilkins26
As he lay in the dark replaying what had just happened, Billy decided the spanking had been another kind...
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Over the edge19
I imagined her watching TV with a glass of wine, not a care in the world, while I was...
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Corporal Punisment Memories School7
(I always add the following disclaimer when talking about this book in later life, Farley seems to have become...