I read with interest a lot of the comments and remarks on the subject of corporal punishment
Like a lot of people, I too can offer some personal experiences.
This is particularly true on the subject of slippering.
I attended a mixed school in the nineteen sixties in the UK.
Back then most schools still used corporal punishment on a regular basis.
It is safe to say that corporal punishment was a normal part of everyday life.
It was never excessive, virtually always justified and for most of the part accepted/
At my own school corporal punishment was always administered on the bottom and never on the hand, possibly for safety reasons.
Punishment for the boys was frequently of the corporal variety.
The slipper, which in my experience was not a carpet slipper or a soft canvas shoe, but most commonly a thick sole plimsol, was used on the younger pupils and for less serious offences.
For more serious offences a boy would be caned.