People messed about in the strict ones despite the cane threat and were well-behaved in the soft ones.
It depended on how interesting was the subject and how the teacher got respect.
Blustering or scowling caning teeches rarely commanded a lot of respect.
Most boys were shocked and surprised after being singled out for an after-class beating it brought a lot of pissing about to an end and made them take school seriously
Edwardian Prep School Canings16
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The strapping of Lawrence Tanner1
Laurence Tanner was a an underprivelged student at a primary school in a small repectable town in 1963, he...
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Tawse Protection Clothing28
Different schools adopted different policies. In some the use of the belt merely ceased on the chosen date, but...
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Miss Howse & her Slipper1
It was 1959. I was eight and in my last term at primary school before moving on to the...
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Punishment in Instalments24
The only exception to this was the one time I and another girl got switched for cheating, and...
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School Punishment Book75
1914-18 punishment is frequent 118 canings average 23 per year all one stroke apart from five occasion when this...
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Corporal Punishment The Anticipation of3
Then came that impossibly difficult decision when she said, “Right which of you chatterboxes is to be the first?”...
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School Slippering in the 50s 2
The others scattered as Julia and I were marched indoors to the office. Iodine was briskly applied...
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Mrs Symington1
It was just two months since Randy had arrived at the small Christian college in Tennessee and began renting...