One big factor for me that hasn’t been mentioned is the chance of my mother finding out I’d been...
I cannot recall any status attaching to receiving CP at either my Junior School or my Secondary School, with...
Detention involved having to write an essay on a set topic. I just loved writing essays when I was...
Although I wouldn’t have known it at the time, if I’d been caned I might now be able to...
When I was at school, the answer would definitely have been detention, although toward the end of my school...
There are few pleasures more agreeable to the devoted cricket enthusiast than leafing through the yellowing pages of an...
There are certain implements which, by their very nature, seem wholly unsuited to the administration of corporal punishment. The...
In the hard-edged classrooms and draughty gymnasiums of post-war Scotland, discipline was regarded not merely as part of education,...
There are certain sounds that never truly leave a generation. The squeak of plimsolls across polished wooden floors. The...
In those days, school discipline carried with it a sense of theatre as much as punishment. Every master seemed...
The curious and troubling saga of Wildman belongs unmistakably to that peculiar post-war British landscape in which morality, discipline,...
In retrospect, one of the more curious episodes connected with the school’s turbulent final years was the affair involving...
In the years when Britain still argued fiercely over the virtues of discipline, authority, and the moral fibre of...
In the curious byways of post-war London there emerged, from time to time, figures whose obsessions propelled them briefly...
In the curious underworld of post-war British eccentricity, few figures were more puzzling — or more unsettling — than...
In later years, many former pupils would compare notes about school discipline with the peculiar fascination reserved for vanished...
The next summons to the Headmaster’s study came several weeks later, though the sense of inevitability surrounding it made...
There was always a curious science to the school cane — a grim arithmetic known intimately by generations of...
In the decades when school discipline was regarded as an essential pillar of education, the administration of corporal punishment...
I have often found myself wondering how schoolmasters first learned the art of using the cane. Was it something...
I think the majority of boys at my school were spanked, slippered, or caned at least once. Some experienced...
Corporal punishment in schools was experienced very differently depending on the era, the country, the school, and the individual...
Yes, I thought the cane would hurt, and it did hurt an awful lot. In the circumstances, I was...
On the one occasion I was caned, I was taken directly to the Deputy Head, so there was no...