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I Got Caned At School

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Having had to bend over to receive the cane on my bottom several times in my youth at school, I can honestly say that I bear no resentment towards the head who did it. It was perfectly fair and I probably deserved it. Of course it hurt like anything, but the worst I ever got was a very sore bottom from which the stripes soon faded . Afterwards no resentment was born by anyone and references for the school were not affected unless one had done something cataclysmic. It was like if you had your punishment you then moved on, hopefully learning a lesson on the way . Nothing seems to me fairer than this
Cynthia · F
Good post Jenny. My experience is so similar. My school was dreadfully strict, but within that context, discipline was applied with remarkable fairness, so that when you were punished, you could never feel a sense of injustice, or even resentment. Like you, I had by bottom caned several times, and it's hard to describe the awfulness at the time and a couple of days after. But, firstly you had the cold comfort that it was entirely your fault - even if only for getting caught - but secondly, it genuinely did wipe the slate clean, and you - and the school - moved on. I even became a prefect, despite my earlier canings.
TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@shirleym56 I can definitely see and understand that.
Cynthia · F
@TommyBoy I do believe that was the actual intention!!!!!!
TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@Cynthia I know! I don't mean to sound naive.
SW-User
Very true. It was nice to wipe the slate clean and move on. But it certainly hurt like nothing else!
TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@SW-User Muat have been quite the feeling!
ArthurP · 80-89, M
I know it is a posed photograph, yet very authentic to the reality many of us faced in our schooldays, but I just wonder what our faces looked like as we waited for that first stroke of the cane which instantaneously took us from a physically neutral state, to one of intense lingering pain. I doubt my face had that mildly anxious look of philosophical acceptance. But I speak as a devout coward.
TommyBoy · 31-35, M
The phrase "wiping the slate clean" comes to mind and that is my favorite part of corporal punishment. Once it's done, it's done!
ArthurP · 80-89, M
@DensieKay Not just a good caned bottom, but a second caned bottom for same offence (essentially impertinence/insolence towards teacher). Believe me, I became the politest boy in the school!
DensieKay · 36-40, F
@ArthurP Sounds like it was thoroughly deserved
TommyBoy · 31-35, M
@DensieKay I imagine it usually is! All sounds so scary.
SW-User
I see most of the comments are from older people who were caned at school years ago. Believe it or not, I still get it at my school - at my parents' request. It's much more painful than the paddle and the stripes are distinctive. It's like everyone wants to examine them.
Sharon · F
It was much the same for me. I got the cane several times at school and the slipper a lot more often. It was always well deserved, in fact I probably deserved a lot more than I ever got.
devonman · 61-69, M
I got caned once . Never again . Hurt like hell !
My wife only got spanked at her school.
Happysailor · 61-69, M
I think a few of us from the UK of a certain age will recall this scenario .
TheThinker · 56-60, M
I always had a terrible fascination with the cane at school although I never got it.

Spent a lot of time thinking about it though, especially after my near-miss that I wrote about elsewhere, and I sometimes wonder if it would have done me some good.

Overall though I think its time has passed, except between consenting adults...
jackcros · 70-79, M
During my schooldays, I received slipper, strap and cane. Yes it hurt, but it was meant to, of course, and afterwards we all moved on
chikki · 70-79, M
@jackcros i was at a private prep school in the 1950's. it was expected that you would have to obey the dreadful words "Bend Over" having first bared your bottom. It was not so much as question of if you would get whacked but how soon would you get your first whacking and then how long between each. Do the slightest thing wrong and it weas an almost certain whacking
jackcros · 70-79, M
@chikki being at a state school most, but not all, punishments were on a clothed bottom. It was a different matter at home.
chikki · 70-79, M
@jackcros in the State schools most punishments were on the clothed bottom and a thicker cane used to bring about the desired effects. Trouble was being thicker it tended to bruise and mark the bottom a lot more. In private schools, way back in time, due to the thick uniforms the bottom was bared and that tradition lived on. It allowed a much thinner cane to be used which while stinging a great deal, may be more than a stout one on clothing, it did not mark the bottom nearly so much. I know where i was deputy the parents thought the price of any embarrassment caused by having to take it bare was worth it, to reduce the marks on the bottom.
1olderguy20 · 61-69, M
What did you bend over to receive it
Happysailor · 61-69, M
Yes I also concur with that feelng
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Cynthia · F
Good description. It was like a 3 part contract - School-Parents - Pupils. We all knew our respective duties, responsibilities and even the consequence for non-performance. (The "Consequences" where heavily skewed against us pupils!)

The only thing missing from it being a real contract in state schools was, in legal terms 'the lack of a consideration'. Most of us felt that lack of consideration numerous times when bending over.. @JoBlak
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