AJ States Thanks for your posts, Thirdformer, and a belated welcome. Your “strong suspicion” is very well founded. It’s inconceivable that every punishment found its way into an official record, in most state schools anyway. Yes, it was the law, but in many schools honoured only in the breach. Schools which used very little CP […]

“Sorry we’re late.” Sara announces. “Got held up with Mrs Burrows and you know Mrs Burrows, we just couldn’t get away.” It was true that Mrs Burrows could talk for England, and obviously mere girls couldn’t be rude to a teacher and cut her off in mid-flow. “You’ve been busy.” Anthea looks at the rearranged […]

In my fifth year at grammar school, there was a girl in my class called Julie. She was an attractive looking girl However, she was very much a loner. She was also something of a snitch, In fact, she was such a snitch, that on one particular day, she managed to get both myself and […]

During the 1960s, I attended a prep school in North Yorkshire. From this prep school, I have very fond memories of our loving but strict matron. Many smacked bottoms were received from her to keep us all in line. Our matron was fairly young, in her early 30s, but she was very experienced in discipline. […]

Maureen Remarks I was a girl at school in England near Wembley in the mid-sixties. I witnessed or was audibly aware of several slipperings administered by my male PE teacher. I personally once received an ‘official’ six of the best with the slipper on my bottom. This was administered with me bending over touching my […]

When I was a junior at high school in East Texas in the 1980s, I was paddled for leaving the campus without permission. During lunch break, I decided to get into my car and ride to the local gas station. There I filled up my tank and picked up a couple of soft drinks. Upon […]