I remember my sister once telling our father that a boy had been slippered by the maths teacher, and asking why he ran towards him to do it. This would have been in the mid-sixties. (We didn’t go to the same school, so I don’t know what else happened there.)
A Run Up to Corporal Punishment5
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Punishment in Instalments11
I don’t know what it was like at your schools, but at mine you were conditioned from an early...
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The Problem with Over the Knee Discipline3
Whereas the uncontrolled lashing out is undignified, there is some dignity in administering or receiving a formal otk...
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Old School Thoughts on Discipline4
For the next year, I attended a private prep school. Here, CP wasn’t common but it was quite...
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Corporal Punishment and The Caning Experience42
I ask as I attended four schools (prep, public, grammar, and comprehensive) from the late ’60s through to the...
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Dreams and Awakenings5
He wondered if the sensation was meant as a foreshadowing of the childish, chastisements that his impending action would...
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Corporal Punishment and The Caning Experience74
But he is patient. “Down again,” he tells me eventually. And I obey. By now there is a reservoir...
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Outside the Heads Office11
Suffice it to say, that I had never before, and have never since, experienced such an excruciating intensity...
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The High Price of Stealing18
When the groceries were put away everyone headed to the living room, as instructed. Mrs Johnston directed the two...