This is a personal story describing the psychological impact resulting from corporal punishment at school. This is a true story that covers my struggle over many years.
The memories described are still very painful, even after the long passage of time.
I am going to begin by describing the abuse I suffered and attempt to cover the history in order of event. It was the experiences in these first years at school that are responsible for a lot of the psychological damage I suffered.
That paddling was 30 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I constantly replay it over...
The process was swift and the time governed only by the number in the group, rarely more than...
It was a hot day like most others. Myself and my mate Richie where running around outside my place...
I did what any sensible, well spanked teenager would, and ducked into a bathroom to cry and check the...
Such canings would leave the boys bottom tender for at least two days and the bruises took over a...
It is an adaptation of the ancient Idea of the Blocks and is not physically- preferable to a switching....
Indeed, in a later case (Costello-Roberts, involving a boy slippered at prep school) the court reaffirmed that corporal punishment...
It shows clearly injustice in a blatant way. Whilst it is fine to argue the boys shouldn’t have...