Looking at a few Friends Reuinited references to these semi-private punishments. This first one was from a girl who attended the Arthur Mellows Village College in Peterborough:
“He used to come into the Music Room and open the windows, shouting ‘stinking peasants’. Remember the big cupboard where he took the ‘victim’ to whack them?”
Presumably this “big cupboard” was located within the classroom. How much privacy would that really give a girl being whacked in there as her classmates listened to the sounds of her beating and her yells of pain?
We know that this particular male teacher almost certainly did beat girls on their bottoms because another girl from that same school and same year wrote about him: