I Got The Cane Or Slipper In The Sixth Form

We were all making a lot of noise waiting for the teacher to arrive. When he did, he just went straight to his desk, opened the drawer and extracted his "slipper" - a large plimsoll. He called us all out, about a dozen of us, boys and girls, and told us to form a queue. Then, one by one, we had to step forward and bend over for six hard smacks across our arses. Sitting at our desks was quite uncomfortable.

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prisonguy · 46-50

I remember the slipper well. The detention alterative was usually getting into the black school pilmsollls and shorts for extra PT, Very embarrassing but I like wearing them now1

Sharon · F

@prisonguy We sometimes got a choice of the slipper or detention. Nearly all of us opted for the slipper.

prisonguy · 46-50

@Sharon Us too.. The extra PE in school issue in front of others walking home wasn't fun

naughtyschoolboy · 56-60, M

@Sharon Hi Sharon, am I right in thinking you got the slipper at school but just accepted it as part of the culture back then? At my boys school in London we often had choices like that... detention or the cane or slipper! I was once sent off (unfairly) in a school football match and was given the choice of a 3-match suspension (letting the team down) or a dozen with the cane. I chose the cane... so I was a hero with a sore bottom! But I didn't think it was so casual or cut-and-dried with girls. Where did you go to school?

Sharon · F

@naughtyschoolboy None of us thought anything of getting the slipper, it was what we expected if we got caught misbehaving. Girls and boys were treated equally and I was often slippered or caned with boys.

jackcros · 70-79, M

@Sharon we had the same view of the slipper and strap at my all boys school, just a fact of life.