hand or bottom which is worse it’s often felt by some

that punishment on the hand is a lesser
option and somehow less painful than on
the bottom I’m not so sure up to a time
just before my 11th birthday attended a
junior school in an urban district which
was under the control of the County
Education Authority as I was to discover
that school was fairly relaxed there was
corporal punishment but it was for
serious stuff like bullying fighting not
usually just for talking it took the
form of the plimsoll or the bat the bat
was either a table tennis bat or stool
ball bat usually wielded with serious
intent by the deputy head mystery it was
similar to the wooden paddle still in
use in many US states today he took a
full swing and the resulting crack
echoed ran the school Hall where
punishments were given naughty pupils
were never punished publicly but were
taken into the school hall from the
classroom in the exact words of Chris a
10 to 11 year old classmate it murders
your ass partway through that final
junior year we moved a few miles down
the road to an adjacent large town this
was a unitary borough and had its own
Education Committee and school system
this was much rougher and a fair amount
stricter they used the tours primarily
and primarily gave it to the hand I
wasn’t very aware of any of this except
perhaps vaguely I was to become directly
aware soon enough after a few weeks I
crossed a line I was unaware even
existed we were told by the forum
teacher to line up in the playground
prior to filing back into the classroom
in an orderly line this we did but a few
of us carried on talking unaware that
this was an offense we were quickly
ordered aside by the forum teacher Mrs W
we were ordered into the classroom
separately four or five of us then in
I saw Mrs W appear with a thick heavy
leather strap and order the others to
stick each hand out alternately this
they did whereupon mrs. W brought the
tours down with considerable might upon
the outstretched palm resulting in a
Yelp of pain from the unwilling
recipient much shaking of the hand and
attempts to squeeze out the pain by
shoving it under the armpits my turn
came all too quickly and mrs. W brought
the leather strap down on my hands it
was agony like the others I shook my
hands and squeeze them under my armpits
all to no avail my hands hurt so much
they were almost none the palm was red
and swollen and my fingers swelled up
like little sausages I couldn’t write or
grip anything tightly for an hour or two
there was very little writing in the
lesson that followed thank goodness the
function gradually returned during the
afternoon though the soreness remained
so I’m not so sure hand is better some
might feel it is slightly less
humiliating than being strapped all
caned on the bum but on the other hand
it is as if not more painful also no one
is allowed to wear gloves when being
strapped or caned on the hands caning on
the bottom is normally over trousers or
skirt knickers in some schools but at
least one item of clothing is normally
the to give some minimal protection
there is also the question of affecting
your ability to use your hands properly
for some time after so in summary and
far from sure hand is the easier option
it would be interesting to know what
others think
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