Senior school: Some teachers would cane or strap to almost sadistic levels, but the fun guys would just slipper. I’m remembering “Jack” the music teacher & “Joe” who did PE, whose lessons were a laugh throughout AND we actually learned stuff. You could be called out to get 1 whack with a plimsoll, your classmates soto voce singing “the whack,the whack, the order of the whack”and back you came shouting a lot-of-asterisks word. All part of the Colditz “who gets one over whom” mindset.
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I was thoroughly embarrassed by the whole experience but relieved he didn’t decide to take our pants down and...
I don’t know of its use in primary schools, it was not known in mine. The strap that I...
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Every master had his own cane, and most also had a slipper or ruler they used too. There was also...