I Got The Cane In School 6 Of The Best

This reminds me of the time I jumped out of the window at school for a dare and ran along the roof below. Unfortunately I was caught and sent to the head who impressed on me how dangerous it was and how I could've damaged school property. My heart sank as she told me that she should make an example of me and give me six of the best.
She then took a cane out of the cupboard and told me to bend over the desk she had for the purpose.
She folded my skirt up and I felt the cane tap on my tight knickers. There was a slight pause and a swoosh as the cane came down, a momentary delay and then a searing pain in my bum cheeks which felt they had been branded with a hot iron. I didn't make a noise because it hurts so much I couldn't catch my breath but the second one produced a yell from me and by the time the third landed the tears were flowing readily.
I clutched the edge of the desk tightly as number four landed and howled as it was followed by five and six by which time my poor bum felt like a furnace. By the time the head told me to stand up I was a sobbing wreck. She asked me if I learned my lesson and I replied yes very hastily through my tears while clutching my suffering bottom.
The head then told me I could leave and go and wash my face and return to class. I made my way painfully and slowly to the girls room and washed my face. When I looked at my bum there were six awful marks across it.
I returned to the class an absolute mess. I was sure an example. Thankfully I had a teacher who was sympathetic to a girl with a burning bum and who ignored my shuffling and sobbing. Of course, afterwards I faced the usual barrage of questions like 'did it hurt?' And other idiocies. Of course when I got home I got no sympathy from mother as she said I thoroughly deserved what I got. Looking back I can only agree with her!

GailCob · 61-69, F

Can I just compliment you by saying that this is one of the most accurate descriptions of what it felt like to be caned at school, especially getting the classic (and usual) six of the best I was caned several times at school in 50/60s, and it was always like this - quite cold-blooded, formal, and with no empathy for the pain and suffering they were quite deliberately -and often skilfully -applying to your bottom.

You captured school attitudes so well.

And home attitudes too! I remember the first time I was caned at grammar school - I was still a first year, so still 11 years old. I got home and burst into tears. expecting my mother to outraged, and charging up to the school to complain about her dear little daughter being so abused.

Some hope - like you, when I told her why I had been caned, she had no sympathy whatsoever, and even hinted that my dad might want to add to the ache in my posterior! Fortunately he didn't.

angela2106 · F

@GailCob I agree with this comment wholeheartedly. Your account of that caning captures so well what it was like when we were caned at school back in the "good old days". Quite exciting to recollect now, but awful at the time.