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I Got A Detention

When I was about 10 I was caught during the lunch break in a part of the school playing field that was strictly out of bounds. The lady teacher who caught me sent me to stand in the corridor outside the headmaster's study. I was afraid that she might ask the head to cane me, but she let me off with a public dressing down and an hour's detention.
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Thevy2941-45, M
You only got the 1 detention and it was when you were 10 馃槺
MartinII70-79, M
@Thevy29 No, this wasn't the only detention. And the standard detention at junior school was 30 minutes, so an hour was really two detentions. If you got four detentions in a term you got the cane.
Thevy2941-45, M
Things have changed I guess. There was only one teacher allowed to hit his students with the paddle if the situation called for it. And that was only because each parent had given him written consent! 馃榿 @MartinII
SharonF
@Thevy29 When I was at school, we were whacked by most teachers. Whether they were allowed to is a moot point as nobody, not even parents, questioned anything teachers did.
MartinII70-79, M
@Thevy29 Practice varied quite a lot at UK schools in my time. At some schools all teachers were allowed to use corporal punishment. At mine, the only official cp was the cane, administered only by the headmaster. The PE master spanked, but I never knew whether he was authorised to do so or not. And I once saw a mistress spank a boy when she thought no-one was looking.
Thevy2941-45, M
That sounds dangerous. That is way too much power for any adult to have over a kid. @Sharon
SharonF
@Thevy29 We know that now but that's how it was then. There was a lot of abuse which is only now coming to light with the offenders being prosecuted. Look up "historic abuse UK". Boys were the main victims because parents tended to be a bit more protective of their daughters.
MartinII70-79, M
@Sharon @Thevy29 I was aware of one caning at school which I considered abusive. The teacher concerned left the school under a cloud at the endof the relevant term. Generally, we just accepted it as a hazard of life and I don鈥檛 think it was administered unreasonably by the standards of the time. But at some schools and with some individual teachers it was much worse, as Sharon rightly says.