“You may find this difficult to believe,” the Headmaster said in a measured voice, “but what I am about...
“Lines, Spockings? No, I do not believe in wasting time with meaningless punishments,” the Headmaster said sternly. “When a...
Thoroughly intimidated, I stepped into the Headmaster’s study feeling as though I were walking through a dream. My nerves...
I had never before been summoned to the Headmaster’s study, so I first had to discover where it was....
Boys found guilty of serious misdemeanours or repeated offences could expect to be sent before the Headmaster for a...
The next hour was spent wandering aimlessly around the neighbourhood, dreading the thought of going home and facing the...
For me, punishments at primary school were something of an unknown quantity. Later, at secondary school, there was usually...
Although I never received the cane while at primary school, nor experienced school corporal punishment from a male teacher,...
My experience of corporal punishment at school comes primarily from being on the receiving end of it throughout my...
For many children who attended school during the mid-twentieth century, corporal punishment was an accepted part of school life....
One individual described his first experience of being caned as an adult. He was required to bend over a...
When I returned to the dormitory grinning, I was treated as something of a hero, especially since I had...
School canes have varied considerably between institutions and across different periods. An 8 mm diameter cane seems rather thin...
The slipper (the right slipper!) can be an extremely effective instrument for striking the buttocks. Its effect is quite...
I have come across several accounts from adults who, despite never having experienced corporal punishment at school themselves, later...
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...