Yet professionally in Australian, no, more precisely, Victorian psychology, sociology, child psychiatry, and educational fields there is a resounding sound of silence, and not a single academic I’ve come across in any of them give any credence for a moment such practices take place …..and unlike me they have nearly all be born and brought up there. Moreover, they teach the kids who have gone to the very schools involved with this ‘big cover-up’ . One said in a Christmas message to me that the odds were better on fairies living at the bottom of his garden, or on meeting an alien at the next faculty drinks party.
The Cane in UK Schools28
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Discipline at Home & School 3
At school, the normal time for pupils to receive corporal punishment was after lessons finished on Fridays – apart...
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The Discipline of Females30
I imagine that he didn’t need much persuasion to whack this young lady’s bottom. Her skirt was not raised...
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Mrs Wilkins114
Please step out of them for me .. that’s a good boy. You certainly have grown since I last...
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Thoughts of an Abusive but Aparant Wartime Headmaster26
I have caned many boys but the thought of any boy getting twelve strokes shocks me, even to the...
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Eric Wildman 1950s Crusader for Corporal Punishment4
It is clear that he had a weakness for publicity and, amongst other things, this led him to place...
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A Window to Spanking17
I knew I deserved a good spanking and even admitted as much to my mother. I tried to say...
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Harsh Lessons at School4
The strap was heavier and more painful than my father’s belt , although he didn’t limit himself to just...
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Memories of Corporal Punishment21
Indeed, in a later case (Costello-Roberts, involving a boy slippered at prep school) the court reaffirmed that corporal punishment...