sadly, some teachers did get sexual pleasure out of smacking children’s bottoms, and if they knew they would not tell their parents they were more likely to be victims.
I think the punishment of 3o smacks, even when I was at school in the 1920 period, would have seemed very harsh. It sounds very much like this teacher enjoyed smacking which is very wrong.
My bottom was very red and sore and no I couldn’t sit down, but by the time I got home and looked in the mirror my bum was just very pink and still quite hot but no bruising luckily. I wasn’t in the habit of wandering around the house with a bare bum so my parents wouldn’t have seen anyway.
I wasn’t the only person who had been smacked by this man in fact there were lots of other girls and boys as well who he had smacked over his knee.