I Got The Cane Or Slipper In The Sixth Form

I hold the distinction of being the first girl in my school to be caned over trousers. A few weeks before girls in the 6th form were granted the option of wearing black trousers instead of the usual pleated skirts. As you can imagine within a few days most of us were in trousers.

I decided to skip a lesson or two one afternoon to buy some concert tickets, got caught and was up before the head. After the usual lecture etc I was sentenced to 6 strokes and instead of my skirt being lifted up, I felt my trousers get tighter around my bottom as I bent over.

I am not sure if the trousers gave me better protection - it still hurt and the stripes lasted for more than a week!

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Girls in my school were lucky, they were caned or slippered over their tight skirts. I suspect that trousers offered little extra protection from pain but did save embarrassment. I also got caned in the sixth form for playing truant but I got eight strokes. The extra two were for not thanking the headmistress.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

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A sadistic headmistress then.

SW-User

She was not sadistic. I knew the rules and got the extra strokes. She did allow us to go home and recover after the caning, which we thoroughly enjoyed.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

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Hmmm. I meant "sadistic" in its true, erotic sense, but the idea of adding extra strokes for something as pathetic as forgetting to say "thank you" for having already been given some bizarrely default number of strokes, is at least ludicrous.

Of the two or three canings I heard about at my school, I think the worst was four strokes. I heard of that from a mutual friend who'd been one of a few to whom the victim had shown the results. I don't know, or forget, what it was for.

However, at least you were able to recover in an eminently suitable and enjoyable way!

I ought add I oppose real CP but have no qualms at all about adult, consensual CP play; although I would have to be introduced gently to the cane!

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@ArishMell There seemed to be two types of school when I went to school. Those who only used the cane etc for serious offences and those who used it liberally. My school fell into the latter sadly for me. The norm for a caning was usually six strokes because minor offences were usually dealt with by the classroom teacher and the slipper.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

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My impression too. Our PE teacher used the plimsoll but only very occasionally - the threat was there but rarely carried out, suggesting it was rather better as a deterrent than its gratuitous use would have been.

I have often wondered where and when this "norm" of six strokes, apparently totally irrespective of offence, originated. Others have asked too. The "of the best" suffix may be from Jimmy Edwards' comedy role as an inept Headmaster in his 1960s radio and TV shows, but I have seen it referenced in 1950s fiction set in equally mediocre boys' schools, suggesting it was already entrenched practice or tradition.