My misfortune was almost always to be the tallest boy in the dormitory, and the one with the largest feet, [ and thus the largest sole on the shoe ] so it was invariably my shoe which was selected, which was even harder to bear, especially as the results were not likely to improve one’s standing with one’s friends! In addition, the slippering was administered over just your pajamas, and these offered little or no protection.
The usual punishment would, so far as I can recall, have been 6 of the best, although I think the first time I received a slippering as a comparative junior [ probably I was about 9 years old ] it was just 4, while one of the last was when I a Dormitory Captain, and as such you always got two extra because whatever had happened was always your fault!!
Corporal Punishment and The Slipper8
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Corporal Punishment References127
St Benedicts RC Sec Leeds Angela I got the cane almost every week from Miss Freeman. but before we...
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Thoughts of School Corporal Punishment4
We had a similar system at my school, but it was like Russian roulette. We knew that we...
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How Hard Would It Be To Bring Back CP in the UK4
The abolition of school corporal punishment (SCP) followed a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) –...
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School Discipline References15
always remember when I first encountered the ‘the belt’ usage in Scotland. Around 1962, as a shy young man...
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School Punishment Book71
This I guess coincided with the rise of disrespect and rebellion in student society as a whole. As contributors...
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Wrong time and Wrong place4
I don’t know if it was that experience, or just general observation of life at the school, but I...
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Why Corporal Punishment Has to / Had to Go41
That’s nothing to do with boys being more badly behaved, it’s as I’ve said before – sex (and race)...
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Corporal Punishment & Slipper Sizes4
At a mass slippering for messing about in the changing rooms about 8 of us were lined up in...