My mother also got a letter telling her I’d been strapped at the time it happened, so the report told her nothing new.
It caused a bit of a fuss with Mum actually, that letter. That strapping got recorded because it was much worse than most strappings I received – worst I ever got in fact – and because I’d never told my mother when I’d been strapped, she was under the impression that it had never happened before. And while she had no objection to corporal punishment, she did think that what I got was too severe for a first strapping. I wound up having to admit that it wasn’t my first, but in fact my fifth (and even then I was fudging things by not counting hand strappings – I’d had at least five of those as well).