Author: ESN

All schools have a school secretary, usually female, and sometimes rather attractive. At my school which happened to be a large comprehensive in London , the secretaries office was adjacent to the headmasters. Now I attended the school in the late sixties, when caning and slippering was the norm. For a senior boy as myself this was rather embarrassing if sent to the headmaster for discipline. Firs...

Has anyone any experience of this once popular but underestimated punishment ? From my experience the sting to the legs is “sharper” but more short lived. The optimum places to smack being the backs of the legs just above the knee and just below the bottom – would anyone agree ? —————————- Saw the just-above-the-knee many times by ratty parents in my childhood(I was born 1952) & in the class s...

Did the deterrent value of corporal punishment wear off after you had been caned a couple of times? I was a nice boy who was never whacked and couldn’t really imagine what it was like. I wonder if I’d been given a couple of strokes early on, I would have said “Well, that hurt, but I survived, I shan’t worry so much about getting into trouble from now on.” Or would it have been more like “OMG! That...

In the Book “The Best type of girl-a history of independent schools” by Gillian Avery 1991 Andre Deutsch describes the flogging of girls by birch at Cowan Bridge(aka Casterton School)where Charlotte Bronte’s sister was” birched “as well as younger girls. Also, a school called Greycoat Charity hospital where girls, as well as boys, were “constantly flogged” and it was so severe that riots occurred ...

First, let me say I have never been spanked and I still feel embarrassed that I enjoy this subject. I am not sure when my interest started but I remember seeing my friend get spanked by our teacher in junior school, must have been about 10. The thing that struck me was how embarrassed she was by it. When the teacher Miss Hopwood called her up to the front of the class for talking, she was counting...

My interests here derive from realism and two distinct school years in my schooling.   We had one school year when an overwhelming percentage of the total school paddlings (including mine) occurred.  Lot of reasons for that.   But, the other year that was memorable was what you reference here.   At an earlier age, we had a teacher who was very serious about homework.  She ...

Did David Butler talk in class? And if he did, should he be caned for it? In 1960 David Butler’s story hit the news cycle. Many opinions on the matter were raised. The debate – to cane or not to cane? – was thrashed out in print, with opinions from not least of all 14-year-old David, his mother, Mrs Patricia Butler and the headmaster of Grays Grove County Secondary school, Harlow, Essex, England –...

Prior to 1940, most offences were treated with the same punishment. That was six strokes of the cane on the bottom. It seems that once a boy was in senior school any offence was six strokes. The idea being to make the caning hurt as much as possible. A boy would get one stroke and feel the full effects knowing that he had to keep bending over for more strokes and feeling each stroke hurting more t...

Has anyone ever met up with an old school teacher who spanked them during the school days ? If so, did you discuss things with them or were you too embarrassed ? ————————— I met the Headmaster of my prep school at the school’s fete with my younger brother (who is 2 years younger and was still at the school) and my parents. He had caned me twice in the past, the last time about 2 years before. He a...

Who remembers school in the 80s? Our school still had corporal punishment when I started in 1983. The headmaster would give children the slipper in his office. —————————————- Some schools retained corporal punishment until it was finally banned in UK state schools in 1987. It was used less frequently compared to the 1950s/60s when I was at school. Our daughters went to senior school, a large mixed...

The paddling of two City View High School students is raising questions about the practice of corporal punishment in schools. The mother of one of the students is furious over the reason her daughter was spanked and is concerned over who doled out the punishment.Charlotte Beaver said her 17-year-old daughter was spanked by City View Asst. Principal Daryl Frazier for using the bathroom after lunch....

I came across The Sternian 1999, the old school magazine of Lord Wandsworth College  and hidden in its pages is a brief mention of a girl being caned. It can be found on page 81 and is part of a reminiscence from a girl called Joyce Aston (nee Cox). She wrote “In the whole of Matron Hubble’s strict regime she only caned two pupils, guess who was one, I think I wanted to be...