I Was Smacked At Primary School

CP was used but only very unusually in all 4 state, mixed schools I attended in 1950s-60s, but I recall it seemed the boys were more likely to be punished physically than the girls. It may be of course that we boys just did not see or know of any girls so punished, rather than no punishment anyway.

So to answer the question... I Was Smacked At Primary School.

Yes, but only once, a slap on the bare leg (below shorts) I recall dimly for being a bit cheeky when reprimanded for something else.

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Well, it's gone form UK schools, and I certainly don't support its re-introduction, though feel as a consenting adult I need the release of school-style hand or slipper from time to time, especially if from someone with real-life experience in applying them.

My (distant) recollection of junior school was that boys and girls both had to bend over teacher's knee or a desk, but boys did it more often. While it is a broad generalisation, girls seemed more compliant than boys and the type of mischief boys got up to was more boisterous, noisy and, thus, disruptive and detectable than that of their female contemporaries. It has also often been suggested that girls' social skills developed earlier than those of boys, so girls were smarter at evading detection and at "charming " or even "weeping" their way out of punishment. Of course, the perspective of those sitting at the teacher's desk may have been different from that of a lad at the back of the class.