Prefects’ Meetings lasted until around 1970. Throughout that time they penalised smoking, swearing, leaving school in school hours, and wearing uniform incorrectly. In the 1930s, at least, they intruded into the academic areas, punishing boys who copied others’ work or allowed work to be copied. Even boys smoking in their own homes, or in mufti, or on a country railway station, were caned. A Scotch boy was a Scotch boy anywhere, and there was no such thing as a private life. A prefect recalls:
School Corporal Punishment History43
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Corporal Punishment Public or Private17
The time I was caned by the Headmaster in his study, I really didnt know what to expect, how...
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Caning from of the Times7
All this will be readily admitted by those of us who were at school in those robuster days when...
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Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage26
As I said in my post to "The Punishment Must Fit…” thread, in girls schools it was used in...
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P,E lessons2
One of the instances that sticks in my mind was the first time I was slippered. We had a...
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Mrs Hamilton22
Mrs Hamilton explained that I had voluntarily come forward – due, she noted, to my dad’s excellent advice. She...
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School Corporal Punishment History17
These quotes come from ‘Xavier Portraits’ by Greg Dening and Doug Kennedy, published in 1993. Much of that book...
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School Corporal Punishment References67
Lime House School Carlisle Nicola Mr Brotherton caught us behind the girl’s dorms, smoking….. we had just moved over...
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Learning How to Discipline7
He let out a yelp and started to squirm some more but she held him down tighter and she...