As an old un I suspect I have more recollections and information regarding classroom and school corporal punishment than many of the contributors to this forum. However I do not normally post as much of the information I have on school spankings, slippering and canings only confirms much of what has already been said many times before in these pages.
However an issue about which I have often wondered and which has not featured that frequently in this esteemed and knowledgeable forum is the mind set of teachers of the 50s and 60s who sometimes seemed to enjoy a little too much the mild impropriety of smacking pupils bottoms as part of their perceived teaching persona .