I came from a primary school where caning is just given even so frequently. I have been caned because of forgetting to do my homework, not bringing textbooks, failing spelling tests and so on. I was particularly naughty when I was in primary 2 and 3, so that was when I received most of my […]

The latter stormed up to the school, looking for Jennings. She found him on dining-room duty. To the delight of the assembled diners, she grabbed Jennings by the hair and, holding on to it all the way, dragged him: out of the room; up a flight of stone stairs; across the playground; and into the […]

I was only ever caned on my hands, at Hatfield House Lane. The most I ever got was four–delivered to the finger-tips of alternate hands. After the first stroke, each hand first felt as if it had doubled in size–then both went completely numb; and so strokes 3 & 4 were a doddle to receive. […]

You tried to put on a brave face when you hands were being caned. Generally the most painful place to be caned was on your fingertips, my sixth grade teacher caned on the fingertips, fortunately I avoided this. My headmistress Mrs Joss preferred to cane the palm of your hand. The worst part was seeing […]

Hand caning puts the recipient facing the caner and the cane can be clearly seen, the trauma is different but no less daunting or humiliating than being caned on the bottom I suspect.   Although it was perhaps more to do with the nature of the teacher rather than the methods below, I would submit:- […]

I have often heard that some schools offered boys the choice between getting it on the hand or the bum, and boys were by no means agreed about which was worse. If children were injured by hand-canings, it would have been all over the newspapers, so I guess the teachers new what they were doing. […]

A friend of mind claimed to have experienced a mass execution — a teacher had demanded that someone own up to some terrible crime (vandalizing a piece of classroom equipment; when no culprit came forward, the whole class got their hands caned. They didn’t have to queue up; the teacher walked around the class; when […]

If it was hands for girls, the fact they have more fatty tissue down there might also explain a thing or two, sexual connotations apart, though that aspect might just have spared the ladies, unless faced by Ketta’s monster! The other thing-did they ever spare the WRITING hand?     I think that they used […]

in your era,I presume hands for girls was the general rule, if girls got it. It was in mine, though, as an all-boy’s grammar, caning girls would have taken a bit of doing anyway! Very few at primary school-I can remember only 2 boys & 2 girls in nearly 4 years-2 pairs of truants. All […]

The cane across the bottom seems far more humane compared to getting it across the hand so why was bending over considered in many schools to be the way you were punished for the most serious offences. I would say it should have been the other way around!   Of course the strap/belt used in […]