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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School Corporal Punishment References72
Mornington High Wigan Gill Macdonald I left in 1985 Those were the days. Mr Lord, I got the slipper...
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Females of the Military8
“Under the circumstances taking a quick shellacking was the least of our worries,” said one former service woman. “After...
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Punishment in Instalments14
the anarchy of the late 70’s took a little longer to reach us in the Home Counties We had...
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Beltings We Got Out Of5
The teacher who owned it went on to become the Principal of a school in a surburb not far...
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A Trip to the Head7
To my right was the Head’s huge mahogany desk, clean and tidy, and gleaming with shine. Next to the...
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Which was Worse8
On the first occasion I had failed to hand in a punishment essay. The second was when four us...
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House Beatings5
My beef was the unfairness of group punishments and he must have known most were innocent. I can’t complain...
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Primary School Corporal Punishments17
By the time we reached juniors around 7 or 8 depending on birth date, boys and girls became...