Prefects’ Meetings lasted until around 1970. Throughout that time they penalised smoking, swearing, leaving school in school hours, and wearing uniform incorrectly. In the 1930s, at least, they intruded into the academic areas, punishing boys who copied others’ work or allowed work to be copied. Even boys smoking in their own homes, or in mufti, or on a country railway station, were caned. A Scotch boy was a Scotch boy anywhere, and there was no such thing as a private life. A prefect recalls:
School Corporal Punishment History43
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And when we got there the Cupboard was Bare33
Simply discriminating by sex doesn’t identify those groups. Quite agree. To me as a sociologist , sex is not...
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Punishment in Instalments25
I don’t want to deny the validity of anyone else’s experience, though, because I imagine that I would have...
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Old School Thoughts on Discipline4
For the next year, I attended a private prep school. Here, CP wasn’t common but it was quite...
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School Punishment Book69
I think the value in the study of such records, probably lies mainly in the way they interact with...
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School CP’s Little Secret64
there’s a difference between corporal punishment and a detention – and that is, that once the cane is given,...
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School Punishment Book39
My parents never knew, I don’t know if they would approve or not, I suspect not. it happened in...
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Corporal Punishment References85
Kingstamerton Secondary Plymouth Elaine never got cane or ruler of mo she was da best teacher there, but got...
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Edwardian Prep School Canings4
I imagine it must have been difficult getting to sleep, with a sore welted bottom, throbbing and stinging into...