Domestic Discipline Memory
The Plimsol or The Slipper
I’d be interested to know which of the above – plimsoll or carpet slipper – most people thought was more effective or painful to receive. I was talking about this to my wife the other night and I was saying that at school I had the plimsoll and at home the slipper and thought the plimsoll hurt more. She on the other hand, received a teachers carpet slipper at school and at home her mum used a plimsoll and she thought the slipper was more painful. ——————————- Personally I think the plimsoll that I got at school from the gym teacher hurt more than dad with his slipper at home. However i think the real reason is that school teachers whacked harder as they were used to doing it – and knew how to do it well. They also knew how to get the victim to bend over correctly to tan their bottom. i sno ...
Boys Corporally Punished by Women Teachers
Were any posters here ever given the cane or the slipper by a woman teacher, or do they know of others boys who were? Apart from the occasional reference on Friendsreunited to cane- or slipper-wielding female teachers I am assuming this was a rare practise, at least in secondary schools. ————————— I got the slipper from a woman teacher at my junior school, Parkhill in Ilford, Essex. It was mostly the male teachers there, and the headmaster, who used the slipper but there was one woman teacher, Mrs D, who did make use of it a lot. I was never in her class but when we were lining up in the corridor one day to get on the coach for a swimming lesson she saw me pushing in. She pulled me out of the line and bent me over and gave me two whacks with her plimsoll about as hard as the other slipperi...
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
Dunce caps were a part of school disciplinary policies up until 50 years ago in the USA. It’s left a lasting impression. The Dunce Cap and facing the wall is still a part of our culture. Would a scene like this happen in a UK office? ——————————— It’s good to see integration on the tour in Virginia. Some of these punishments may be familiar to the UK? Which ones would not be? ————————— The wide range of opinions from a century ago is something that shows a lack of consensus to the role gender and age plays. There is less sympathy for a girl meriting judicial punishment than scholastic. But as it was affirmed not long since, “that no reason could be given why girls should not be whipped in school the same as boys,” I submit the following: 1. Girls are not boysthey are very different from boy...
Witnessing Punishment
Whilst it certainly was humiliating to be punished in class in front of other pupils, I felt it was also humiliating to witness the punishment. If it was a severe punishment, such as a caning, I used to look away. I always felt sorry for the person being caned, especially if it was for a trivial offence such as failing to bring a book. If a child had to be punished at all, it was best carried out in the office of the head with just the two people present. At one school I worked at, the headmaster would ask a male member of staff to witness when he caned boys and the senior mistress would find a female to watch her cane girls. Several of the staff said they felt uncomfortable having to do this duty and one actually refused. The witnesses were there, the head said, to prevent allegations of ...