Slipper Spanking
Having to wait for the Slipper
What is the longest anyone has had to wait between the announcement of punishment and its ‘execution’? I read a long time ago of someone who was told on a Friday that he was going to get the slipper for some misdemeanor, but that it was going to wait until Monday morning. So the poor lad must have had his whole weekend ruined because of having to wait – the Sunday evening must have been horrific.Did anybody experience anything like that, or even or long wait outside the head’s study till he came back from a leisurely lunch, as happened to me! I lost count of the butterflies in my stomach by the time he arrived.At prep school in the mid ’70s, I waited from Thursday until Monday morning break to be caned. I was “on the report” which meant one had to carry a blank timetable around to all your...
Miss Howse & her Slipper
It was 1959. I was eight and in my last term at primary school before moving on to the lower school of a large boys’ grammar. My friend Valerie and I were playing a silly game in class, paying no attention to the lesson. The game involved each of us in turn holding up a hand while the other tried to touch the hand with their tongue, while the first child tried to avoid it. Amazingly, the teacher, Mrs Roberts, didn’t notice. The lesson ended, it was morning break and I went out into the playground. But after a few minutes Valerie came looking for me. “I’m afraid we’ve got to go and see the headmistress. Janice [I forget the wretched girl’s real name] has told on us.” When we got to the headmistress’s study, both the head – a frumpy spinster named Miss Howse – and Mrs Roberts were waiting fo...
Fun Slippering
The phrase ‘Fun Slippering’ sometimes occurs in messages to this board. I have not heard the expression before, and am wondering if anyone can give me a definition. Also, recollections of the great exponents of Fun Slippering (I think the words merit capital letters) would make interesting reading. From what I have seen here, it seems that Arthur ‘Bicycle Face’ Taylor was such a one. Dorothy Although unable to give a definition of Fun Slippering I think we need someone who attended William Penn School to do that. I offer below an extract from Whimpering in the Rhododendrons by Arthur Marshall. In this instance, it was the chastised pupils, rather than the teacher, who derived fun from the slippering. In the common room one morning the headmaster reported an occasion when corporal punishmen...
Discipline at Home & School
I read with interest a lot of the comments and remarks on the subject of corporal punishment Like a lot of people, I too can offer some personal experiences. This is particularly true on the subject of slippering. I attended a mixed school in the nineteen sixties in the UK. Back then most schools still used corporal punishment on a regular basis. It is safe to say that corporal punishment was a normal part of everyday life. It was never excessive, virtually always justified and for most of the part accepted/ At my own school corporal punishment was always administered on the bottom and never on the hand, possibly for safety reasons. Punishment for the boys was frequently of the corporal variety. The slipper, which in my experience was not a carpet slipper or a soft canvas shoe, but most co...
Old School Thoughts on Discipline
Due to my abiding interest in corporal punishment, I do find myself visiting a number of websites related to the subject. There are those who have a keen interest in CP and experienced it without regrets as a child. In my experience, these people tend to be older and were at school in the days when CP was still legal. Then there are those who were badly abused in the past, and who mostly have a natural aversion to CP. However, even some of this group may still considerably less harsh use of spanking as a reasonable discipline. On the other hand, there are those who consider a mere single slap to the clothed bottom to be ‘abuse’ – the latter tend to be from a younger generation. So we found that those supporting CP in the home are often abused online by others who suggest that they’re in fa...
My Encounters at Boarding School in the 1960s Part3
At the weekend Julie and I received permission to go into the local town and to stay there for the evening performance of Macbeth at the local theatre group, as this was part of our A-level English Lit exams. The rest of the girls had been able to go to the matinee performance on a Wednesday but we had been busy at a Hockey Competition. It was arranged that we could go in on the bus to collect our tickets and then have a meal at the local restaurant. As we were going to be out in the evening we had been allowed not to wear uniforms and we would be collected outside the theatre by a member of staff at the conclusion of the play. We had a lovely meal and a glass of wine as we were both eighteen now and really enjoyed the play. As we came out of the theatre Miss Maloney was waiting outside an...
My Encounters at Boarding School in the 1960s Part2
Because of not being a head girl or deputy head girl I could not change in our own office and everybody would see the six lines across my bottom and the bruising left by the two slipperings. Julie tried to cheer me up saying just to laugh off the comments. As we both dressed ready for breakfast and assembly I did an extra check of my uniform just in case there was another inspection. Everything was okay. I was just going to open the door to our dorm when Julie shouted. “Stop! You are not wearing these.” I had forgotten my sashes so I quickly put on the two red sashes and then over the opposite shoulder I put the yellow sash which indicated that I had also been caned. We went to breakfast and I was not allowed to sit at the top table and everyone was looking at me and smirking. It was so em...