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I Witnessed Corporal Punishment At School

Back in the late 1960s I taught for a term at a boys' prep school before going up to university. One morning, the matron came into the staff room and announced "P****** was caned last night". What I remember particularly was the slight lascivious smirk on her face as she said it. I assume the boy was actually caned by the headmaster, but I'm sure the matron wished she could have administered the caning herself.
SW-User
Iwent to a prep school from 8 to 13 and was frequently slippered by my matron especially for talking after lights out. Surprised the matron mixed with the teachers
This was 1966 to 71
MartinII · 70-79, M
@SW-User The matron and her assistant used the staff room just like the teachers. The matron never mentioned using the slipper herself, at least not in my hearing. Happy to talk more if you would like to.
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@MartinII love to
Justme264 · 70-79, M
@SW-User Good boy
Perhaps P****** had been deliberately irritating Matron for some time. That might account for her satisfaction. And of course there was widespread approval of physical punishment back then
Michael66T · 70-79, M
I attended a state co-educational school in the 1960's,where the cane was the usual form of punishment,the female staff,particularly the older staff,were regarded as the "hardest caners" who always seemed to enjoy it.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Michael66T
Some years ago I corresponded with a woman who had been for a short time, in a pro-CP campaign group around the time of the debates on banning it in British schools.

Sally said they'd hand out questionnaires in shopping-centres around her English Midlands area, and she sent me a copy and a summary of the results. About 70 had responded to about 100 forms; all predictably saying "Yes" to CP's retention - Sally said it was something of preaching to the converted.

The questionnaire was amateurish, not exactly good statistics, and somewhat salacious in details; but I noticed that the results showed the women tended to be crueller than the men.

This did surprise me, I must admit. My pen-friend wondered if the men knew their greater physical strength so were a bit more wary of going too far.

Sally was all for erotic adult spanking, hence our pen-friendship, but said she left the group when she began to suspect the murkier motives of some its leading members.
CathyUK · 56-60, F
I know definitely one class mistress was feared for punishing boys. Was the Matron married do you know?
MartinII · 70-79, M
@CathyUK Did all teachers use the cane?
CathyUK · 56-60, F
@MartinII No, some used the slipper
miscreant6x6 · 56-60, M
@CathyUK @CathyUK And did all the boys fear this lady teacher ? Did her reputation go before her ?
Robert · 70-79, M
She may have witnessed it. Or of course she might have been into the whole spanking sexual thing
MartinII · 70-79, M
@Robert Yes, or she may just have been something of a sadist.
angie8819 · 56-60, F
i dont understand
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@angie8819
I'll leave Martin to answer that one, my dear Angie! :-)
MartinII · 70-79, M
@angie8819 All the matron said was to report the fact of the caning. No-one said anything in reply, so the subject was changed. But I inferred from her tone of voice and facial expression that she was pleased the caning had happened. And I suspect she might have been the sort of lady who enjoyed giving boys a good spanking. But all this is, at best, intelligent guesswork on my part.

I certainly did not want to cane the unfortunate boy. When I was much older I might have enjoyed caning the matron or one of her successors, but that's another story. 🙂
angie8819 · 56-60, F
@MartinII now we will never know
Fgtyjhbndfdrgt · 41-45, F
did the matron have to watch ?
chikki · 70-79, M
@MartinII Again conclusion is being reached without consideration of the facts. It was commom for the person reporting a boy to witness the punishment and in a lot of schools for the "protection" of the person administering the punishment another teacher was present, to prevent any unfounded complaints. I think it is rather unfair because matron witnessed the punishment to say she enjoyed it. It is another case of people jumping to conclusions about people who saw cp without knowing the reasons why they were present
MartinII · 70-79, M
@chikki I saw her the following morning, you didn’t. And I’m not jumping to, or in any other way reaching, conclusions. I’m merely speculating based on my own observations.
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canemesir6 · 22-25, M
I got caned at school
MartinII · 70-79, M
@canemesir6 You are young to have been caned at school. Where was that?
@canemesir6 what did you do
chikki · 70-79, M
@canemesir6 you make it sound as if you were the only one to get caned. In the 1960/70 era certainly in private schools between the ages of 8-13 it would have been very rare for a boy not to have been caned at least once and most woukkd have averaged at least one caning a year in the 10-13 age group. Also its worth noting most privare schools caned on the bottom rather than the hands. These private schools as a rule made boys drop their trousers before bending over and were caned across their pants.....however in many private schools pants had to be pulled down as well and the cane used on the offenders bare bottom. It was common for boys to get caned on their bare bottom......going back to my school days i was very often on the receiving end of a hard bare bottom caning. You just bared your bottom and bent over....no shock horror that you were going to be caned nor that yu had to take your pants down, nor that as i was in an all boys school the rest of the class witnessed you getting it bare.

 
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