I remember hearing a tale from a friend as a boy, about how his public boy’s schools headmaster and the next door public girls school Headmistress had had some kind of rivalry and decided to bring it to an end by having a sports competition. The boys Headmaster had been so confident of victory that […]

Because of the interest shown here in my posts to the Yahoo group, I thought I would post the first one here for you all to read. I don’t want to give the impression that this was a school out of Dickens’s time, with sadistic teachers flogging the girls. Nothing could be further from the […]

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 […]