Whole Class Punisment54

I understand that in England there was a practice of using “the slipper”, usually a gym shoe, as a means of administering a less severe form of corporal punishment. This was not a feature of the disciplinary regime in Scotland’s schools. A few private schools in Scotland, who followed an essentially English curriculum, did use the cane as well as the tawse, and on the odd occasion in many schools, both private and local authority, a teacher would use a ruler, or such like, to administer punishment but, for the overwhelming majority of schools in Scotland, the leather tawse was the one and only instrument of punishment. Unlike the situation in a number of English schools, the Scottish pupil was not normally sent to the Headmaster or another senior member of staff to be punished, nor did he or she normally have to go the school office or another member of staff to borrow an instrument to be punished with.