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angela2106 · F
@Chroniclewriter see my earlier reply
Rebecca54 · 70-79, F
@Chroniclewriter Looking back I was stupid to leave the school premises during a free study period. I was seen by a member of staff and reported to the head. I knew I was in trouble when I was summoned towards the end of the following day but was surprised when she said that she was going to cane me as I was so close to the end of my school career. I think she only told me I was going to get 6 as I was bending over the chair and they were far harder strokes than my previous 3 strokes. I probably felt the punishment was excessive at the time - I didn't cry but could go straight home to compose myself
Chroniclewriter · 70-79, M
@Rebecca54 The trouble is some heads expected to know where pupils were at all time. Truancy was a frequent crime and challenge when we were all at school; I went off one afternoon at primary school and got a very hard whack from the headmistress (nun)across the palm of the hand. I suppose six bending over a chair can be painful depending on how hard the strokes were applied and what your covering was. It's hard to say if three strokes was enough; it all would depend on the Heads mood at the time. Was the Head nice to you in your remaining time at school. If you were still 17 were you a young member of the upper V1th about to take A.levels. You say you went straight home to compose yourself; did you manage to hide the circumstances from your parents or were you open about it?
GailCob · F
@Chroniclewriter In terms of the frequent use of the plimsol in the classroom, I don't think sadistic entered into it, at least in the correct sense of someone inflicting pain for their own pleasure. It was just an intolerance of any misbehaviour or lack of attention. Punishment was a word that was used in those days without any embarrassment or any sense that a whacked bottom was anything other than the pupil's just desserts! There was very often a total lack of empathy with the recipient, but I never ever sensed clinical sadism.
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Chroniclewriter · 70-79, M
I have often wondered whether corporal punishment was used in more schools of a specific type than others in Britain prior to abolition. I get the impression it was used widely in secondary modern schools, sometimes by staff ill qualified to teach, with little academic ambition, or poor disciplinarians. I know boys independent schools used it, often as part of the tradition to breed tough but disciplined gentlemen. How far was it used in girls independent, direct grant and state grammar schools? In the state system I know each county had its rules for corporal punishment and who might administer it.
TexChik · F
They tried once ... I got arrested ( technically ) the sheriff handcuffed me and drove me out to his farm , released me and handed me a fishing pole ... and we talked about what happened . He knew I had PTSD . No charges were filed . Then his wife fed me and he took me home .
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Was this a catholic school?@SweetMae
HappyHubby · 31-35, M
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Codrin · M
Yup. Wooden rule and switch on the hands, some slaps, had my sideburns or my ears pulled, standing arms-up, sent to cut my hair number one.
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Only once. And then they had to deal with my mother. So that never happened again.
TheWildEcho · 56-60, M
Sophiewargamer · F
I’m glad it’s no longer allowed
Sophiewargamer · F
Yes sir, though should just be parents not teachers
Anyone gets in trouble theybtell parents
Anyone gets in trouble theybtell parents
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Sophiewargamer · F
Yes site it is, but is the parent strict enoughsome don’t care what their kids do and the complain when they’re hooked on drugs or worse
TheWildEcho · 56-60, M
We had to wear short trousers at primary school and regularly got hit on our bare legs
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Whatever4 · 46-50, M
Yes, it was allowed until I got to high school when they changed the law in my state.
celine211 · 22-25, F
Nope fortunately i live in this age
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I was paddled in school many times
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Yeah I got whooped.
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BlueRain · 51-55, F
That in these parts
Mamapolo2016 · F
No.
bijouxbroussard · F
Elementary parochial school, I had my hands “rulered” once, had asked an “inappropriate” question about the teachings. My father was down there like a bear, upset because they “hit my daughter for asking questions they couldn’t answer”. 😄 But some kids got paddled, and they were very discriminatory in how kids were punished. We moved to the suburbs and I went to another school, where kids were not hit.