School Discipline

I wonder if this was common practice. When you were about to be punished, in anticipation of the agony of ...
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Were any girls given more than 6 strokes of the cane/slipper?and what about using the slipper and cane as the ...
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I am fortunate to have enduring “friendships” with two “never too old” ladies who have a passion for realistic school ...
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A quick question. Did any of your teachers or masters ‘run up’ from a short distance to add more force ...
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Who did not manage to keep a stiff upper lip when punished —————————— I was genuinely scared when I knew ...
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I remember our school had a rule that if you could only be caned twice per school term, one before ...
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I am referring here to proper rattan canings, boys only, on the buttocks and laid on hard. “Prime” can mean: ...
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The Dragon in the Garden by Reginald Maddox. United Kingdom. 1968. The book is written in the first person as ...
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I attended a private school and Grammar School in Cornwall during the 1960s. Both schools were known as Caning Schools ...
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How common were over-the-knee spankings in Primary Schools or even in Secondary Schools? Was it administered by classroom teachers or ...
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I have alluded to the fact that this was common in the Christian Brother’s school I sttended during the sixties ...
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I remembered an occasion when a classmate used the expression “He can’t aim”. I imagine he was talking about a ...
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I recently initiated some discussion of school detention and this is in a similar vein.  I read somewhere else someone ...
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Has anyone had stories of either yourself or someone being punished on a school trip for misbehaving, especially those which ...
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If you could go back in time and experience CP at your old school, would you take the magic genie ...
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I apologise in advance to those who think this is off-topic but although there was/is a separate group for discussing ...
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I think my first introduction to this subject was as a child when reading Roald Dahl’s autobiography ‘Boy’. It blew ...
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I can remember couple of boys in my class saying that on the way to the headmasters office they would ...
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Was it particularly easy to count out each stroke if asked to? (I mean the person being beaten, obviously!) I ...
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School CP times would have varied greatly between day and boarding schools but likely included one or more of the ...
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This school closed so the memoirs are completely uncensored.  Below is a selection of stories from this school, augmented by ...
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Not sure if this topic has been covered before but we had several teachers in my senior school that would ...
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The sound of punishment, terrifying then, is evocative now. At an English boys school, I attended, canings by the headmaster ...
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An interesting question. Was it common for a cane to break whilst being used in the punishment and then being ...
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Did anyone experience this? When you got beaten with a cane then had to endure the same punishment a few ...
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I am very interested to know if anyone was ‘beaten’ during the 1950s-60s at a UK public or private school? ...
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The recent post from ‘well disciplined’ prompted me to dwell on my experiance of being sent to the head by ...
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There is a popular caveat repeated often on reality television here that says don't try this at home. It certainly ...
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After visiting with some friends/relatives back in my day, I was able to get some of them to talk about ...
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Were any posters here ever given the cane or the slipper by a woman teacher, or do they know of ...
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Dunce caps were a part of school disciplinary policies up until 50 years ago in the USA. It’s left a ...
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Whilst it certainly was humiliating to be punished in class in front of other pupils, I felt it was also ...
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I was not spanked beyond age 10. However, when I was 11 and 12 I remember being given the occasional ...
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When I was 15 years old, I had a boyfriend who was one year older than me. They had a ...
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Stumbled across this site whilst looking for something else. Reminded me of when I was at private school in the ...
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A slippering at home was from a carpet slipper but lasted longer than a slippering from the PE teacher which ...
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My school years were from 1943 to 1953 when SCP was the rule rather than the exception. The build-up to ...
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Everywhere there are preferred instruments of correction. Obvious one of course is paddle versus cane or tawse or slipper but ...
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I wonder if anyone like me is fascinated by the belt and the way it was used in Scottish schools ...
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it’s from 1961 when a headmistress caned some girls in front of the school. it took place in Essex. Now ...
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I was at school during WW2 and spent a lot of my time, both at home and at school, down ...
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All schools have a school secretary, usually female, and sometimes rather attractive. At my school which happened to be a ...
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Has anyone any experience of this once popular but underestimated punishment ? From my experience the sting to the legs ...
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Did the deterrent value of corporal punishment wear off after you had been caned a couple of times? I was ...
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In the Book “The Best type of girl-a history of independent schools” by Gillian Avery 1991 Andre Deutsch describes the ...
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First, let me say I have never been spanked and I still feel embarrassed that I enjoy this subject. I ...
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My interests here derive from realism and two distinct school years in my schooling.   We had one school year ...
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Did David Butler talk in class? And if he did, should he be caned for it? In 1960 David Butler’s ...
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Prior to 1940, most offences were treated with the same punishment. That was six strokes of the cane on the ...
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Has anyone ever met up with an old school teacher who spanked them during the school days ? If so, ...
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Who remembers school in the 80s? Our school still had corporal punishment when I started in 1983. The headmaster would ...
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The paddling of two City View High School students is raising questions about the practice of corporal punishment in schools ...
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I came across The Sternian 1999, the old school magazine of Lord Wandsworth College and hidden in its pages is ...
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Did anyone ever sit in class/assembly and watch their brother or sister get a caning or spanking from their teacher ...
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I was channel hopping a couple of days ago and came across the film KES – great movie. I tuned ...
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Has anyone found any references to otk punishments on the friends reunited site or…dare i ask it! Has anyone any ...
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Students in some schools are subject to the paddle as long as they are in school, even today. But just ...
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Having had a long interest in the history of corporal punishment, I thought I would post some notes on the ...
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When you got the ruler on your hand, was the teacher or head sitting or standing when administering it? Also, ...
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I’m doing some research at the moment into the history of prefects or monitors, older pupils selected by the Head ...
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I visited was a friend who is 3 years younger then me and lives in East Alabama which is not ...
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When corporal punishment was in force, students had various ideas about how to cope with the cane, and how to ...
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In my last year at school in the 60’s I engineered a caning for myself it worked and I was ...
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Did your parents ever use a familiar phrase to indicate that a spanking was coming?In my case I heard on ...
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Was anyone smacked by hand in Senior school? ——————- I remember in the 1st year at grammar school 3 boys ...
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Good reflections from former students on their experiences at school. One student even said the strap had tacks in it! ...
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I love the parents letter. We define obedience as doing exactly what you are told, doing it immediately and doing ...
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I’m not sure why someone who is being punished should have to bend over to receive it. I know at ...
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At the boy's school, I went to in the early 70s the slipper was used regularly. A few teachers also ...
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Some twenty months ago three female ex-pupils who had been chastised by headmaster Robin Peverett, O.B.E. appeared in a Channel ...
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The statistics were collected for the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education. They were collected every ...
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ABOUT BIRCHING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue XXIII, 13 April 1889, Page 4 By an Old Boy There are certain ...
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seeing a post from ms ottley about knickers pulled to one side . was this common in anyone elses teachers ...
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Hello everyone, only me again! Another question for you all. Was it common to ‘chalk’ the cane so the accuracy ...
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The Sunday Telegraph reported that a student protest group called Bad Student piled bamboo canes in front of Thailand's ministry of ...
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This post has been inspired by a question asked by AW in another thread, about television. Answering that question, I ...
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A few months ago, I discovered this forum via Google (while doing research for my latest work) and have read quite a ...
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I would like to ask this - I know there are a few ex prefects on here so I’d love ...
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Random thought - did anyone notice someone on the street say when they were out and about who they thought ...
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There may be nothing new in this post . If so my apologies. My wife and I have never been ...
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Bit quiet at the moment so I thought I would start a new thread. I would like to hear from ...
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My justification for including this in an SCP forum is that a schoolteacher is involved. In 1922 T. E Lawrence ...
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I have read plenty about how painful the canings were but was wondering what were the various rules once inside ...
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I have two questions for the membership of this site. 1) was the cane effective as a way of punishing ...
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From what I read on Facebook it seems there was a lot of hand caning in schools. Was anyone having ...
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Whilst looking on Friends Reunited, I came across The Sir Wilfrid Martineau School in Birmingham Where it appear that a ...
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There has been a great deal of doubt about the issue of male teachers administering corporal punishment to girls in ...
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Hello everyone, what would everyone’s preferences be regarding the recipient’s position? Certainly regarding using the cane I mean. I don’t ...
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I have seen boys caned during school assembly. A whole class were called up to the stage and given four ...
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I was talking to a couple of friends over the weekend and we recalled getting spanked at home and in ...
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Fantasy stories often talk about different kinds of Cane -- senior, junior, dragon or whatever. Teachers in the Beano often ...
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I'm prompted to ask this by a fleeting recollection of an incident when I was in my last year of ...
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I believe there may be an existing thread covering this topic; Hopefully current contributors will pardon the repetition and hopefully ...
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According to my search on here this school has only been mentioned once before by Sarajane in 2002  here as a friendsreunited ...
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For those that had to bend over to suffer a caning from the headmaster or headmistress, did they concentrate the ...
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In my senior school, if you were really naughty, you could be sent to to the adjacent primary school for ...
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I just wanted to say thank you for this forum. I have not really contributed much over the years but ...
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The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread ...
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school caning in front of assembly Has anyone ever recieved or witnessed a public caning at school? If so please ...
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In the 1970s a story hit the front page of the Sun and the local rags about "Three schoolgirls from ...
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Being a lifelong spanko, I obviously deal in fantasy rather than reality. My enjoyment has normally been obtained by administering ...
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Was there just one place at home where you had to go to receive your punishment like a barn, woodshed, ...
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Hopefully this is an ok topic to discuss? How many of us, after being caned or strapped on the bottom ...
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Hello everyone, Was it uncommon or not for someone to be beaten twice in one week? I did read a ...
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Everybody has to start somewhere, so here goes.  Inspired by the stuff about Miss Simms and her male admirers  at ...
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In my school which was all girls there was no corporal punishment but girls who took private lessons after school ...
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I have been reading the posts with interest. As a child in Scotland the Tawse was used regularly and given ...
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A few months ago I set about collecting data from facebook regarding the SCP of females within the UK.  So ...
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I was thinking recently about different approaches my headmasters took when you were stood in front of them ,knowing you ...
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i can recall at my over zealous cp school now over thirty years ago that i used to witness cp ...
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Hi - How many different positions have you been put in for C.P and which was the worst. My worst ...
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In the 70s and 80s, corporal punishment was fairly often mentioned in newspapers.  These stories were very interesting to those ...
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Having been into our esteemed subject for quite some time, I have over the years been fascinated to try to ...
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public caning in uk schools Has anyone ever recieved or witnessed a public caning at school? ------------------------------------------------- Please define your ...
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Hello everybody, I'm still deployed, but thankfully, it is proving to be pretty quiet. I've been working on my book ...
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Do not know if anybody else encountered punishments at school apart from slippering or canings. But I used to have ...
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Here's a shopping list from the county of Bedfordshire Ashton Middle – Dunstable Claire – b1971 – Slipper across unspecified ...
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A Friday caning was a real spoiler for me. If you could have postponed a caning you received on Friday ...
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I attended a boys’ grammar school in the North of England in the 1960s.Corporal punishment was widely used.Most of the ...
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What is the longest anyone has had to wait between the announcement of punishment and its ‘execution’? I read a ...
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It was 1959. I was eight and in my last term at primary school before moving on to the lower ...
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The phrase ‘Fun Slippering’ sometimes occurs in messages to this board. I have not heard the expression before, and am ...
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Not so long ago, I lost my parents, and I had the unenviable task of clearing their lifetime’s possessions. In ...
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I was a real chatterbox in school, particularly during my primary years, and my talking in class frequently got me ...
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I was never very good at spelling – and that lack of ability led to my first and only school ...
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I read with interest a lot of the comments and remarks on the subject of corporal punishment Like a lot ...
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Due to my abiding interest in corporal punishment, I do find myself visiting a number of websites related to the ...
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This story was one my mom shared with me when I was older, and it took place shortly after my ...
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At the weekend Julie and I received permission to go into the local town and to stay there for the ...
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Because of not being a head girl or deputy head girl I could not change in our own office and ...
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In my formative years in the 1960s I was sent to boarding school in the South of England. I was ...
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My name is Brenda, and I was born in 1954. I received my early education at a Catholic parochial school ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas School for Boys was a small boarding school outside New Orleans that ran from the mid-nineteenth century ...
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It is one of the ironies of my high school life that I got one of my most painful paddlings ...
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 I was having a talk with a few mates last night & the subject of C.P came up. One ...
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