I do remember reading in the school rules: “Misbehaviour in toilets will be severely punished” To be honest in...
I am sure there were many automatic caning offences but the most common one was being sent out of...
At my school, being caught smoking was guaranteed to trigger a caning. In fact, it was really the only...
It would have been less easy to guarantee caning by the headmaster. At the time I’d have bet that...
But in an all-male school with hulking great third year sixth form stars of the rugby 1st XV and...
Being caught in transit between home and school not wearing my school cap would have been the easiest way. ...
No caning at my junior school, at least not for juniors. The office of the joint headmaster of the...
We were never explicitly told that certain behaviours would lead to this as an inevitable consequence but it didn’t...
If you went to a school that used formal corporal punishment (i.e. not just spur of the moment in...
Before I could even react, Mum was once again crashing the sole of her removed slipper against my already...