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Sorepants:
People exaggerating here? Whatever are you thinking of!
It would seem we are on the same wavelength in that parental spanking wasn’t that unusual in 1950s/60s. It did still exist even in the early 1980s in some families. A friend of mine used to spank his sons in the early 1980s. A perfectly normal family as I recall. I knew he was a fairly strict sort of dad and I remember I met him one evening and he apologised for being late. He went on to say that their younger son had been playing up that evening and had been warned but had continued being a nuisance and had been firmly spanked.
I have to admit I was a bit shocked at this as I’d not heard of youngsters still being spanked around the time. I could go on how my friend had spanked his son but I didn’t ask and received no further details. Some schools still used CP around then but it was banned in state schools a few years later.
iankenrick:
I remember one instance of bottom slapping in junior school quite vividly. It wasn’t over the knee though. It was just before the 11+ exams. Its purpose was brush up our basic maths skills.
It was an unusual session. A whole group of us were sitting on the small platform in the school hall. To make it more unusual the headmaster was running the session, I’m not sure if any of our usual teachers were there. The maths session was mental arithmetic to be more accurate. The headmaster fired quick questions around the group. As I remember we were all doing quite well until he asked one boy the question; Four take away seven?
The boy answered You can’t do it, Sir. He was asked again and gave the same reply. The boy, who was 10 or 11, was told to stand up, we were all sitting up the floor. He was called to the front, the headmaster made him bend over with a hand on the boy’s back. He then asked the same question and the boy again gave the same answer; You can’t do it, Sir. The headmaster then gave him a hard slap across his bottom. Then he was asked asked the same question with the same result.
I sat there on the floor terrified. I have known what the answer would have been if it were it in a maths problem but as a straightforward four minus seven I too thought it impossible. I feared that I might be called upon the answer the question myself next.
The headmaster continued to ask the same question slapping boy’s bottom hard each time he gave the wrong answer. The boy was soon in tears, he just didn’t understand what the headmaster meant by the question. After about six slaps he was stood up and the headmaster shouted at him You borrow from the next column! Only then did I understand the question.
The session then continued without any further problems. I knew the boy who had always seemed quite clever but like me just hadn’t understood.
I’d been spanked at home a few times before this, hand across the bare bottom with me over the arm of our settee but never like the headmaster did. He slapped very hard with the slaps really drawn out with the same question between each slap. I’d seen slaps on the bottom at school before but never quite like that, usually one or two quick slaps. The headmaster, a big bald headed man, didn’t usually take any lessons. I’m not sure if the boy did pass his 11+ exam!
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teachers seem to have the power of parental punishment in the classroom
you may of thought it unjust humiliating and unfair but that was the law of the jungle
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Sorepants wrote: ↑
Aug 27, 2020It actually seems quite an intimate thing to do, even if the child is being beaten within an inch of his/her life, and perhaps a bit more appropriate within the family than for a teacher to do.
Beating a child to that extreme is not punishment it is assault regardless who is doing it. Over knee bare bottom spanking could never really be called ‘beating’ anyway.
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