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I Got The Slipper At School

My first taste of the slipper at school was at junior school when I had just turned 10 (at the very end of the 3rd year). This was for the heinous crime of talking in class, when the teacher had been out of the room! The class snitch told on me, but he got his just deserts later! I was frogmarched to the headmaster, where I was told off for my 'appalling' behaviour and told I was to be slippered for it. You would have thought I'd stolen the crown jewels and murdered the queen, the way he went on! 

He opened a drawer in his desk and took out a white plimsole, and I was told to bend over and put my hands on the seat of a chair which he put to the side of his desk. I felt the slipper tapping on my backside and then it hit with a dull thud. 

Being used to being slippered at home on my bare bum I thought this would be easy - I mean, I still had my pants and trousers on! How wrong I was!! I was holding onto the sides of the seat for dear life, to stop me standing up. I don't know how the headmaster would have reacted to me standing up, but my dad didn't like any interruptions! 2 further sound thuds later and my bottom was on fire. The sting with each stroke was worse than my dad's slipper, and the cumulative effect after 3 was as bad as double from my dad. 

I stood up and rubbed my bum with both hands and looked at the floor with watering eyes. I had not cried, or shouted out (much) but it wasn't a very pleasant experience - which was made considerably worse by a second dose at home, comprising 6 smacks! 

I was to get 4 further slipperings at junior school, and another 7 or 8 at secondary school. 

The worst at junior school was due to me being unable to keep my mouth closed for longer than 10 seconds! This was my main problem, I was far too talkative and when I got bored during the daily morning assembly, I started talking to the lad next to me. I was shushed at twice by one of the teachers, but the headmaster heard and made a big deal about it by screaming across the hall at me and warning me to be quiet! He really did make himself look quite a fool!

My big mistake was telling this to the lad beside me - in the middle of prayers! "YOU BOY. GET OUT AND WAIT OUTSIDE MY OFFICE" His face was beyond beetroot, but so was mine as I walked out with everyone watching me! 

The next few minutes felt like a lifetime while I waited for him, as I stood alone in the corridor, outside his office. I was more annoyed at myself for being so stupid and getting caught, and I knew what my fate was going to be - I wasn't going to be sitting very comfortably for a few hours. 

Sure enough, a short while later the headmaster walked past me, without even acknowledging my presence, and opened the door, barking at me to get inside. Once inside, I took up the usual position in front of his desk. I didn't even have to be told, because this was starting to become a habit. I got the usual lecture about respect this, disgusting that, stupid the other etc etc, before he took his plimsole out of the desk drawer. 

I had known all along there was a very good chance this was what was going to happen, but I wasn't expecting to be told to bend over the desk. I had always gone over the chair, hands on the seat. I stepped forward and leaned forwards, only to feel a hand in between my shoulder blades pushing my chest flat onto the desk. 

I felt that slipper tapping several times on my bum before the first thud of the slipper landing on my backside. The force pushed me forwards into the desk and it hurt a lot more than I'd ever experienced before. He waited several seconds while the fires were ignited on my skin, before 'thud'! Again, I was pushed forwards and I let out a yelp. This was repeated a further 4 times, with the stinging reaching previously unknown and indescribable levels, and my reactions getting louder with each one. I'm not ashamed to admit there was plenty of tears, crying and bubbles coming out of my nose! However, as soon as I was let up I was jumping up and down on the spot, with both hands clasped to my burning bum! 

My trip across my dad's knees that evening was NOT very nice at all. 12 of his slipper on my still stinging bare bottom. I realised after that, the human body can produce endless amounts of tears and snot in a day!
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toiler
Getting slippered at school for speaking in class now seems ridiculous.
Programmes like Educating Yorkshire show how much education has moved on , how different teaching has become nowadays
Grumwit
I totally agree. Thank goodness we no longer think it acceptable/appropriate to beat kids in school - or anywhere else for that matter.
Mick672 · 51-55, M
Totally agree in most cases, but for the more serious things (bullying especially) it should still be an option IMHO
toiler
I agree with you Mick672. It works when used in the right circumstances especially with boys. Thye should re-introduce it with strict guidelines
Mick672 · 51-55, M
I know with age my memory is fading (or so I keep getting reminded!) but it was very rare for girls to get either the slipper or cane at my school. Not because they were all angelic, far from it, some were worse than us lads!
lyndaR
My teachers had the same idea. It didn't matter whether you were a boy or girl, misbehave in class and you were called out to the front, bent over and slippered.
Mick672 · 51-55, M
That's someone else, boys could be slippered in front of the class, but I never saw that happen to a girl. Most of the time we would be sent to the head of year, but even then it was nearly always lads getting sent. I just think girls can act all sweet and innocent at the blink of an eye, whereas lads can't lie straight in bed!
lyndaR
My school had a reputation for being firm but very fair so we were treated the same as the boys. The only thing that could be considered unfair was that we had to lift our skirts to be slippered or caned. The boys got it through their trousers but so did girls (in 6th form) who were wearing trousers. That might be why girls weren't slippered in class in some schools.

Some, mainly male, teachers were far too soft with girls - they didn't work at my school and probably wouldn't have lasted 5 minute if they'd tried.
Mick672 · 51-55, M
Aye, it is completely wrong to punish boys over trousers and girls with skirts up. Not that I'm sure it made any difference to the pain, but there are sexual connotations there, which I'm sure some male teachers would have 'got off' on. Let alone the lads who would have copped a right eyeful!
lyndaR
I was slippered and caned through trouser in 6th form and it didn't make any difference to the pain. The lad did "cop a right eyeful" but a lot of us wore skirts so short they did most of the time anyway. The teachers were very professional so, if they did "get off" on it, they didn't show it.
Mick672 · 51-55, M
No chance of that at my school - skirts were knee length or just above - nothing shorter allowed. And to be fair, there were very few lasses that wore anything much shorter. If they did, they just got sent home to change. So no such luck for us hormonal lads!!
lyndaR
Our skirts were meant to be knee length but it wasn't strictly enforced although there were a few slipperings for it.
Mick672 · 51-55, M
Did you go privately or comprehensive? Cos your skool sounds ultra strict compared to my local comp! Considering it was the old Grammar School, it was quite lax at times. Fortunately for me - at the time!
lyndaR
It was a private school, mostly day pupils but some boarders. It wasn't really ultra strict, we could get away with quite a lot. The biggest difference between us and the local comp. was that the cane had been abolished in state schools but private schools could and did still use it. In a lot of ways we were better off, teachers in state schools were very ingenious when it came to punishing children after the cane was banned.
Mick672 · 51-55, M
Yeah, it was banned at the very end of the 3rd year at my school. Which at the time I was doing cartwheels about, but looking back I would have benefitted, if that's the right word, from more of the same.
offenspnkd
All the evidence suggests that it works much better with girls than with boys. It can even lead to more misbehaviour in boys in some cases.