I’m new to this group, but have found it interesting looking through the various posts. I went to a Prep school in the late 60’s when caning was the accepted norm. The Headmaster ruled by fear as well as the cane; he was the only one to cane boys and every other day some chaps […]

Some time ago there were questions about whether beatings in front of the whole school ever happened. I don’t think they were common but I heard of one. Peta Wilson, the Australian actress, in a 1999 interview with American host, Conan O`Brian, told of a time she was spanked in front of the entire school […]

I have followed the link over from Abby`s site and read the threads,good to see that “The Jay” is roosting here and “Jockie” is firing electrons accross Hadrians Wall also a number of other familiar names but I have not yet spoken to George. My question Sir,(it seems only right to call George sir)is from […]

My first spanking was in junior school when I was nine years old. The headmistress was probably a very kindly woman, but to us children she was an old dragon. I had managed to get chewing gum stuck in my hair, which was shoulder-length. The more I tugged at it during playtime, the more it […]

I was asked about parents witnessing punishment and if it was more effective when this was the case. Without looking up the date I think this was late 50’s. (If anybody want to know the exact date I can check it out.) A boy was reported to me by a parent for gross rudeness. He […]

At my grammar school in the north-East, the strap was in full use. The school was mixed but usually it was only boys who had to bend over. But there were exceptions. One chemistry lesson, the teacher asked us to hand in our homework. Most of the boys had done it because they knew the […]

Daily Mail, London, 30 March 1905, p.3 New rules for punishment in school. Yesterday the Leeds Education Committee adopted new regulations for the infliction of corporal punishment in schools. These provide that corporal punishment shall only be resorted to in extreme cases, and not until other means of discipline have been tried. Corporal punishment shall […]

Daily Mail, London, 3 August 1903, p.4 To the Editor of the “Daily Mail.” Sir, – I am glad you have allowed the subject of “lines” to be ventilated in your columns. They are utterly useless as punishments, and only induce bad writing, which is a very usual fault with boys from a public school. […]

hand or bottom which is worse it’s often felt by some that punishment on the hand is a lesser option and somehow less painful than on the bottom I’m not so sure up to a time just before my 11th birthday attended a junior school in an urban district which was under the control of […]

Transcript bring Melissa’s class was doing in their gym in the middle of the lesson she and the other girls heard someone coming in from the changing room it was mrs. Townsend and she went over to the gym mistress and spoke quietly to her the exercises stopped for a moment and then resumed all […]