I Was Caned At School

Mass caning for smoking. The teachers managed to round up a couple of dozen or so of us smokers once. I was in 5th form at the time and my older sister, who was also caught, was in 6th. There were also some 4th form girls.

We were all taken to the gym and given six of the best.

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chikki · 70-79, M

Now you are saying teachers used cp because they were sadists. HAs it occured to you that it may be true to an extent now, but then it was regarded as just good firm discipline. It worked for them as a boy and as done to them they are using the same as it worked. i DO NOT THINK IF IT WAS EXCESSIVE, UNJUSTIFIED or done in a sadistic manner parents, even then, would not have toleated it

Sharon · F

@chikki If they honestly believed it was just good discipline they wouldn't have exempted girls. They would have known it would cause girls to deliberately get boys into trouble - they would have their own childhood experiences to draw from.

chikki · 70-79, M

@Sharon i have a feeling you were not a child when cp was used a lot. You have overlooked the point that cettainly in the Mid 60's we had not got many mixed schools....this was a later developement.

Sharon · F

@chikki I was born mid-sixties, I didn't start school until c1970. CP was used a lot when I was growing up. We were also moving towards sex equality and more mixed-sex schools.

The Sex Discrimination Act was passed about the time I started secondary school and I remember it threw the cat among the pigeons. I've learned since that a lot of school were threatened with legal action over their discriminatory policies. Some schools opted to use CP equally, some abandoned it and others thought they were above the law so just ignored it.

NortiusMaximus · M

@Sharon

They would have known it would cause girls to deliberately get boys into trouble -

I saw that a lot when I was teaching. In my experience schools that didn't use CP at all were no worse, discipline wise, than those that did use it for both sexes. By far the worst were those schools that only caned boys. Girls deliberately misbehaved very badly. As others have said, they flaunted their immunity, essentially taunting teachers, safe in the knowledge they wouldn't face any significant punishment. Getting boys caned was a huge joke to them, it was something of a competition among some of them.

It was common knowledge among teachers and some actually admitted that they got some perverted pleasure from beating boys. They also said that by not caning girls they could more easily avoid allegations of sexual impropriety.