I don’t recall any kid at my primary getting whacked with their Dad or Mum there. Parents weren’t all over the schools like a rash in those days. Apart from the Mums, and occasionally Dads, who helped out changing the kids for swimming lessons,and the Mums who volunteered for the ‘tuck-shop’,you didn’t see parents around […]

in the very first series of Grange Hill, Tucker and Benny were caned in front of their mothers (their Dads presumably being at work in school time): in fact it was strongly implied that the mothers had asked for their sons to be caned. Before caning was banned, there was a brief period where it […]

The cane was usually reserved for the head of the school I attended and she would administer the cane in her office. A teacher could give a pupil up to six strokes with a wooden ruler in class and I was subject to one such punishment. I had forgotten my lunch and my mother arrived […]

i once went home from school when i was 11 with a very red bottom having been spanked hard on the bottom  by a pe teacher only a couple of hours previous. my mother noticed my bottom as i had to have a bath and i told her what had happened.she said thats the way […]

I had a friend at school here in the uk in the 1970s, whose mother was summond to the school after the school had closed , and to bring her son along with her, a serious offence had happened and needed sorting out . he was about 11 years old and the punishment meant 6 […]

On a personal note, I deserved the four corporal punishments I received and I don’t believe that I was punished unjustly and my punishments I received were not outside of the accepted standards of the day. I do feel that the cane should have been applied to the bottom rather than the hands due to […]

If you knew you were going to be caned you could spend a couple of minutes warming your hands up by rubbing them together or on the material of your shorts or trousers if you were not instructed to wait for your punishment with your hands perched on your head. Other methods to dull the […]

I was caned four times during my schooling and the cane was applied to my hands on each occasion. School regulations permitted the use of corporal punishment which took the form of the cane applied to the hands with a maximum of six strokes. In primary school girls under the age of 12 were permitted […]

I still remember usually, after the first stroke I’ll be in huge shock, after the 2nd, my palm feels hurt like hell, 3rd onwards hand starts feeling a bit numb. I also notice most of us girls tend to start tip-toeing after the 3rd stroke until the caning is complete. My worst caning was 5 […]

My teacher expects us to show our writing hand for caning (which is right hand for me), and support it with my other hand. The teacher will also hold my right hand with her left hand. It is the ritual for her to rest/point her cane on my palm, and then give me a small […]