But what if I had believed in the efficacy of CP? I once asked myself whether, if I had sincerely believed in the merits and morality of corporal punishment, and hadn’t enjoyed administering it in the way I did, I would have used it more often, less often, or about about the same. I spent quite some time considering this, including examining many actual cases of slipperings I had handed out, and the inescapable conclusion I reached was that in many of those cases, I would not have used corporal punishment. That is not to say that the punishments in those cases breached the rules, because they didn’t, strictly speaking. But if I approached those cases purely from a perspective of what the purpose of CP was supposed to be, including the deterrent element, I would have simply given mere warnings to many of those girls, instead of the slipperings I did give them.
Corporal Punishment References from Buy Gone Days22
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Thoughts of an Abusive but Aparant Wartime Headmaster48
BREAK TO LUNCH This was mostly the time I used for doing the paperwork, but before I could start...
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Witnessed School Paddling21
The few boys that tested Ms. Presto usually went to the hall and returned with a red face. I...
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Georgina of the Fifth34
Beatrice had many excellent rules, and though in the enforcement of these she was strict to the verge of...
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Put Back on Track 6
After the slippering was over, she gently lifted me from the desk. She held me in her arms while...
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The High Price of Stealing39
“Now young man, you stand right here and don’t you move. I don’t want to see you moving about....
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Why Corporal Punishment Has to Had to Go71
If some kids are going to get abused and mistreated by teachers anyway then why give them a system...
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The Headmaster’s Study14
In its center was what looked like a small vaulting horse but it had been modified to include leather...
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Irish & British Corporal Punishment Experiences Compared11
”Biffer”, would have been a Dublin expression, I think. We always referred to it as the ”leather”, or sometimes...