I never regarded hand spanking as a school punishment. This was something reserved for pupils of pre-school age and confined to the home. It was a lot more intimate punishment. I think pain thresholds have also changed. In 1940, if you smacked a bottom with your hand there would be very little reaction. If it happened today tears would result. It may be due to other factors other than the sting but the idea of me having a pupil over my knee, as a headmaster, be they boy or girl, bare or over clothing, fills me with a thought of revolution.
School Punishment Book49
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South London Revisited3
I remember it to this day. I was sent up to Mr. Woodlands to collect the cane and book...
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How Would you Rate your Schools Punishments30
Could it possibly work the other way? If a boy and a girl were caught committing some offence together...
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Mild Smacking Allowed11
More recently, a father out of spite against his ex-wife drove his car into a Dam drowning his three...
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Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage32
I would go some way to agreeing, Private schools who have a more traditional approach dont seem to have...
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School Corporal Punishment History135
Caulfield Grammar School. Again, not a vast amount of material (I’m hoping the next lot of books I get...
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Put Back on Track 5
Her left hand pressed firmly into the small of my back and she smacked that slipper into the centre...
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Punishment in Instalments12
When I think back I figure it would have been great to tell the Headmaster to foxtrot oscar; but,...
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Punished for Bad School Report16
This Monday ordeal was a permanent shadow, for the boys who lived for the greater part in complete uncertainty,...