it seems to me the only was acute and severe pain inflicted as punishment can not be considered torture is to twist the definition of torture to exclude the punishment in such a way that tortures definition become arbitrarily convoluted and ultimately meaningless… like when the usa attempted to argue that enhanced interrogation was not torture

About You:
Gender: Male
Approximate age when punished: 6
Approximate year of punishment: 1964
Crime committed or alleged: talking in class after being told to be quiet

About the punishment
Administered by Head, or Staff member: Mrs Anderson
Gender of staff member: female
Location punished (Classroom, Office, Hallway etc): classroom
Type of punishment (Cane,Slipper,Paddle etc): hand
Number of strokes: about 5
Applied to (Hand, Bottom, Legs etc): bottom
Position adopted (Standing, Bending over Chair, Desk etc): over teachers knee
State of dress (Over Trousers/Skirt, panties, bare etc): over short trousers
Privacy (In private, In front of Class, With another teacher etc): in front of class

About the school
Name of School:
Town: midlands
Country:

Effectiveness
Were you ever punished again for the same offence?: Yes
Do you consider the punishment effective?: at the time

Any other relevant info: Mrs Anderson was my Aunty

About You:
Gender: Male
Approximate age when punished: 10
Approximate year of punishment: 1968
Crime committed or alleged: Talking in class

About the punishment
Administered by Head, or Staff member: Teacher
Gender of staff member: Male
Location punished (Classroom, Office, Hallway etc): Classroom
Type of punishment (Cane,Slipper,Paddle etc): Slipper
Number of strokes: 4
Applied to (Hand, Bottom, Legs etc): Bottom
Position adopted (Standing, Bending over Chair, Desk etc): bending over touching my knees
State of dress (Over Trousers/Skirt, panties, bare etc): Over trousers
Privacy (In private, In front of Class, With another teacher etc): In front of class

About the school
Name of School:
Town:
Country:

Effectiveness
Were you ever punished again for the same offence?: A few years later
Do you consider the punishment effective?: At the time.

Any other relevant info: Mr Warner was looking after his own class and my class. We were told not to talk and get on with our pre-set work. He came back and caught me talking. He took me back to his class, told me to bend over, I did so as he took the slipper from his drawer. He gave me four whacks and told me to sit down in the corner and to be silent. I was!

Many thanks for your participation. I will reply to this post myself with the details of the CP I received.

Note: I see no reason why schools should not be named as they were operating completely within the law.

I received many canings during s m y school years  and the hand and bottom   and hand spankings  was just summing that  I  got a kick out of  HEAD MISTRESS     HOLD OUT YOUR RIGHT HAND  got 3 then   and your left hand  anne  such pain
Anne

About You:
Gender:  Male
Approximate age when punished:  16
Approximate year of punishment:  1960
Crime committed or alleged:  Cutting Class

About the punishment
Administered by Head, or Staff member:  Teacher
Gender of staff member:  Male
Location punished (Classroom, Office, Hallway etc):  Empty Classroom
Type of punishment (Cane,Slipper,Paddle etc):  Paddle (18″ X 3″ X 3/8″ Red Oak w/ 1/2″ holes in two rows)
Number of strokes:  6
Applied to (Hand, Bottom, Legs etc):  Bottom
Position adopted (Standing, Bending over Chair, Desk etc):  Bending over desk
State of dress (Over Trousers/Skirt, panties, bare etc):  Pants and underwear up
Privacy (In private, In front of Class, With another teacher etc):  Private, no witness (wasn’t required at that time)

About the school
Name of School:  Olentangy High School
Town:  Delaware County (rural area)
Country:  US of A

Effectiveness
Were you ever punished again for the same offence?:  NO!
Do you consider the punishment effective?:  Very!

Gender:  male
Approximate age when punished: 7 or 8 probably 7
Approximate year of punishment: school year 1956-7
Crime committed or alleged: Took Money out of envelope on teacher’s desk

About the punishment
Administered by Head, or Staff member:  2nd grade teacher
Gender of staff member:  female
Location punished classroom
Type of punishment hand spanking
Number of strokes: I don’t recall
Applied to bottom
Position adopted over her pal
State of dress bare bottom
Privacy: In private

About the school
Name of School:  the local public school.  If it had a name, I’ve forgotten
Town: suburb of Traverse City Michigan
Country:  USA

Effectiveness
Were you ever punished again for the same offence?:  no
Do you consider the punishment effective?:  yes

Hi, Yes, many times back in the 1960’s and 1970’s. We always got the strap on the hands at primary school, usually 2 on each palm, and then it was the choice of the cane on the backside or the strap on the hands at college. If you chose the cane it was 4 whacks, and if you chose the strap on the hands it was 6 cuts and they hurt as the senior masters at my college could really lam it in. Personally, I did not like the cane, but the strap was a different story. Although it stung and your palms went pretty red, it was a something I could take without shedding any tears, and I always felt quite smug afterwards when other boys would come up to you at playtime and want to see your hands and to know if they were sore. I would love to get 6 of the best now with that leather strap on the hands! The most I ever got in one day at school was 12, {2 the first time in the morning, 4 in the early afternoon for misbehaving at lunchtime and 6 from the headmaster after school because two of us were caught with a cigarette just as we were going out of the school gates}. I am of the old school and I think that the strap should be re-introduced. Graham

I was punished at school across my naked buttocks, and then had to stand in the corner with by pants around my ankles facing out while 2 others got punished, this for being noisy in class.
I also got punished at home by by 2 older sisters who would make me strip and then spank me in front of teir friends, this only stopped when I was 15

oneeyedick wow how old where you was there girls  in the class so every one would of saw your privates then that must of been embarrassing for you how where you punished  was it a male or female teacher what position what where you punished with did you have too pull your own pants down for the punishment how many strokes / smacks did you get

I never experienced corporal punishment in school, and in fact, only saw it executed once, in high school.
This would have been in the period of 1966-1967 in Rockford, Illinois.
I can’t remember the kid’s name or the infraction he committed, but he got about three good whacks with a long wooden paddle on his bare butt, administered by the male teacher.
Conveniently, his butt, and the rest of him was already bare.  This was in a swim class, and all of us were all bare.  (Yes, they really did that to boys in those days.)
He didn’t seem to react to it with much pain, though his butt was red; but at that age, teenaged boys wouldn’t react if you set fire to their hair.
I thought it must have been especially humiliating for him to be nude in the first place, then punished nude in front of thirty other nude  boys who witnessed him bend over and grab his ankles in preparation for the smacks.