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Sultanswat407
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iankenrick40618
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Sultanswat407
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iankenrick40618
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CathyG22730
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Sultanswat407
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WWT
CathyG wrote:We never had to bare our backsides, but in grade school it was common for the teachers to lift your dress or make the boys pull their pants down for a spanking on their undies, Fortunately, that ceased around 1970.
Hi Cathy,
Even if you were not not made to suffer the indignity of presenting your bare bottom for a spanking, I imagine that your thin underwear offered little protection.
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six of the best1,11596
Some lads just bent over and took the whacks without a murmur. I presumed that these were boys who were spanked at home by their parents. Over the months we became used to seeing this happen. Then one day I was caught chatting during a lesson. I was called to the front and the teacher produced a plimsoll. He bent me over his desk and gave me two hard wallops. I don’t remember being at all embarrassed as I’d seen others take much the same from this teacher. My backside stung and it hurt when I sat down afterwards.
If we had a new teacher it was always interesting to find out if he used corporal punishment in his lessons and how it was given.
The geography teacher spotted me talking and I was called to the front. Before I reached the front he had already taken the plimsoll from his drawer. I was asked what I had said and told him that I had asked the time. The boy in the front desk was asked to stand to one side. He knew why and took his book with him. I was told to bend over his desk. The plimsoll whacked across my bottom three times. The whole class stopped reading their text books and watched. I’m not sure if they enjoyed seeing me taking the ‘slipper’ but it added interest to an otherwise boring lesson!
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Stuartsummers568
There was the sound that made everyone wince, but no one i recall ever made fun of a boy who got punished as we all knew it would probably be our turn one day. As others mentioned the ritual of having to walk back to the desk with bum on fire and avoid looking at your mates as you were being brave i remember well.
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six of the best1,11596
Stuartsummers wrote:Looking back I’m not we enjoyed watching friends get spanked , but did revel in the nasty boys getting their just desserts. Also if another boy was being spanked, slippered etc it meant you weren’t!
There was the sound that made everyone wince, but no one i recall ever made fun of a boy who got punished as we all knew it would probably be our turn one day. As others mentioned the ritual of having to walk back to the desk with bum on fire and avoid looking at your mates as you were being brave i remember well.
Hi Stuart,
You’re right, almost a sense of relief when another boy was whacked during a lesson. It was unlikely that the slipper or cane would be used again in that lesson unless someone really misbehaved. You mentioned ‘nasty boys’; I think some teachers whacked the persistent troublemakers harder than others.
Like me it would seem that you went to a UK senior school in much the same era as me; late 1950s/mid 60s. I have to admit that I did wonder it the boys who seemed to ‘absorb’ whacks were used to being spanked at home or they were just braver than me. I knew that some of my friends, particularly the ones from big family, were spanked at home but, of course, had no knowledge of others in my class.
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Stuartsummers568
You are right about the sense of relief that it wasnt you!
When i was 11-13 (year 7 and 8 nowadys) my form teacher ran a points based system..every started with 0. Get +5 and you got a reward, go to -5 and that meant a slippering. The scores were on display so everyone knew who was close to a whacking. Being on -4 was a nervy experience and I remember my first time of getting the dreaded -5.
The punishment was not given in class but you did feel bad for or laugh at / enjoy it ,depending on whether you liked them or not, a boy who hit the mark!
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bripuk39929
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I love the comment about St Agnes. They’re protest hunger strike ended in a force feeding. He didn’t need tubes to end their strike. It starts at 1:23:00. The girls know how to get under his skin.
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Oliver_Sydney89948
Great book and film. “The Battle of the Villa Fiorita” by Rumer Godden
See https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/992 … la_Fiorita
The spanking was faithful to the book, though not the aftermath. However, the children won in the end….
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Another_Lurker10K256
If it were real the woman who slaps the little girl in the face and the man who spanks the other little girl would be bullies, worthy of nothing but absolute contempt. However the colour in that movie is beautiful. I’ve never taken much interest in the cinema, whereas you are clearly an expert. Was it some special process?
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Oliver_Sydney89948
Puzzled by your comment.
The children were being thoroughly obnoxious and the punishments were not that severe. However my sympathy in the book was always with the children. I was both pleased and sad when they won.
Much SCP was considerably harsher and given with far less justification. However in the case of SCP I would often tend to have sympathy with the teacher. Someone in such a frustrating and thankless job needs to have some way of retaliating against their tormentors.
I have attached the spanking scene from the book – very close to the film.
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Another_Lurker10K256
Thank you for going to so much trouble.
I confess that for various reasons, mainly because it’s very compact and tricky to strip to get at the mother board, and having done it once I’m not keen to do it again any time soon, I haven’t yet fitted a sound card to the rescued from a skip PC I’m currently using. I am far too mean to spend money on new computer hardware when there’s tons of it being throw away needlessly because of trivial and easily fixed hardware problems. The current favourite is a rack server so never had sound originally, though it is much better equipped for I/O and expansion than the average server.
Consequently I had no sound and what I saw was a woman hitting a child in the face (always wrong IMHO) and an aggressive large male trying to force feed a small child and then beating the child for for not co-operating.
Neither of these things seemed to me to be acceptable, hence my reaction
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Another_Lurker10K256
If I interpret your above contribution #26 correctly I think I share your sentiments. However I have neither looked at the site concerned nor, as noted above, seen the video clip with sound
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six of the best1,11596
As part of full length film is it perfectly acceptable but some may regard it as unpleasant to view but it was just a small part of the film. The following scene with the other girl in their bedroom asking to see the girl’s spanked bottom comes over as perfectly natural and in a way charming.
For those not wishing to view the whole film the scene is at about 1hr 25minutes into the film.
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Another_Lurker10K256
The fact remains that on viewing American Way‘s video link I was seized with a sense of something unpleasant and contrived. Perhaps it was the violence, perhaps it was the little girls’ rather strange costumes, I’ve no idea.
However I was not overly surprised to see stujos‘s contribution #26 above regarding the content of a Blog site with the same name as the book and film.
Maybe if I read the book or watched the whole of the film I would change my view. It is though unlikely that I will do either.
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Oliver_Sydney89948
I thought the film captured the exasperation of adults quite well. Perhaps exacerbated by guilt. The scenes were perhaps overly melodramatic. Slapping in the face is not good but understandable. Forcing food is stupid and counter productive. I have no idea whether the costumes were strange.
The spanking portrayal seemed realistic. In 1962/63 I had a teacher who spanked boys of that age over his knee – unusual and I would guess frowned on in Australian state schools. I recently read in an old school magazine that the previous year he had taught in a Prep School near London. The standard boys’ reaction was passivity, as it was for the many hand canings I witnessed at high school. An occasional grimace of pain was acceptable. Anger or tears would have been very unwise for different reasons.
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six of the best1,11596
I don’t know what age the girl in the film was supposed to be, 9 or 10 perhaps, difficult to guess with dress and styles. Such a punishment have been seen as quite appropriate for both boys and girls of that age back then.
There are a host of well known named actors in the film but I don’t think it was ever seen as a box office success in British cinemas.
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CathyG22730
WWT wrote:CathyG wrote:We never had to bare our backsides, but in grade school it was common for the teachers to lift your dress or make the boys pull their pants down for a spanking on their undies, Fortunately, that ceased around 1970.Hi Cathy,
Even if you were not not made to suffer the indignity of presenting your bare bottom for a spanking, I imagine that your thin underwear offered little protection.
Sure, it did not give us much, if any, protection. Your bottom felt like a thousand needles pricking the skin.
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2015holyfamilypenguin4,32069
http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/hi … Page=false
The public flogging of a male scholar in an all male class by a male teacher had its proponents.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn … 79%2C9152/
Such punishments as depicted involving spectators of the same gender with a woman birching a girl on the shoulders would not be beyond the realm of fantasy.
This would be.
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AliceOttley23519
With ref to the excellent picture, the public punishment should act as a deterrent for both the audience and the recipient – who would want to experience that!
I have to admit that I would have enjoyed seeing it though!
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KKxyz3,59053
It is unclear whether the belt is adequate for the task of deterring aging if not applied with enthusiasm and determination. Is there a dearth of 18 year olds in Poland?
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2015holyfamilypenguin4,32069
New England American chivalry that spared girls of the birch or the leather tawse doesn’t spare them the paddle in the south to this day. Girls were no less troublesome in 1893 nor any less paddle worthy in New England nor southern belles today.
Feel free to click the persistent link.