I would guess it’s a spray birch – there’s a lot of sticks in there, I didn’t get to count them. It’s based on the ones that were used in Australian prisons back when boys still got birched and I don’t know how close that is to the English model, but there’s a lot of pretty sticks and they’re pretty close together. I can probably find a photo of the ones in the Old Melbourne Gaol museum – real ones – that were copied to make what was used on me. It was really painful.
Corporal Punishment Comparing Impliments25
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School Corporal Punishment The Pros and cons of10
I remember the misdemeanors I got physically punished for, which I cant say I did for other forms of...
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Corporal Punishment in Mixed Secondary Modern14
If she received something more abusive (like those female victims of Peverett), she’s probably spent a lifetime trying to...
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Sent for the Cane22
This particular Saturday was like any other. We set up and started practising at about 8.45, and decided to...
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School Corporal Punishment The Pros and cons of2
What are the arguments against corporal punishment being employed for truancy and misbehaviour in general, and the reasons for...
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School CP’s Little Secret48
In some schools, perhaps many schools, that is true. But it doesn’t have to be – that’s my point....
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School Punishment Book111
But that was not the case, because nearly all of the teachers used classroom CP, and I have no...
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Caning from of the Times48
Apparently someone reported to Mrs. Bracey-Wright, who was one of the Camberwell guardians, that corporal punishment had been inflicted...
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School Holiday Discipline3
It should have given us something good to write in that first essay of the new term. But that...