“The discipline at Xavier was not so much violent as all-pervasive. Corporal punishment, however, remained a part of that discipline. The ‘strap’ was a two foot long, sewn leather piece two inches wide and about an inch thick. It was the usual instrument of pain. It was surrounded by mythology and macabre stories. This one was the ‘Brown Bomber’, that one had a key imbedded in it, that other one had been soaked in brine or had come to the right pitch of flexibility and pain-inflicting capability on the sweaty back of some old nag. The instrument of violence created many joking relationships between masters and boys.
School Corporal Punishment History22
Related Articles
-
This going to hurt you six times more 16
He was a dinosaur,so as KK has noted elsewhere , but that impressed him . Afterwards our relationship improved to the...
-
How Mum use to Slipper3
Towards the end of my ‘spanking years’, I can remember a couple of occasions when she presumably deemed me...
-
Should unlawful incidents of school CP be taken to the Courts32
This is not really my area of expertise. Although I did briefly train as a teacher in my youth...
-
Caning from of the Times62
Mr. BRIGGS, on behalf of the plaintiff, said he was prepared to accept the verdict of the majority. Mr....
-
The Cane in UK Schools23
corporal punishment was recorded, or was supposed to be, but were never asked to report the numbers. If they...
-
Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage11
What so many schools have today is a gender neutral approach that, at best, fails to give both boys...
-
Extraordinary Records reveal how Corporal Punishment was Meted Out1
A most interesting case this! I had no idea that ‘informal’ punishments of that sort were ever recorded in...
-
Reminscences of a not-so-wild colonial boy1
I grew up in a former British colony during the 1940s and 50s. Corporal punishment was a part of...