did you receive corporal punishment at school

@StrictStepmum I did also and my kids went to private school from our church and they also got spanked in school.

@Paul7 and you let your kids get hit??

@Paul7 It wasn't a Catholic School was it? Nuns are notorious for loving to paddle children.!!!

@CurrentName Absolutely fine, it was normal for me

@demone75008 All children got spanked when I was growing up. A lot of young adults, especially young women and those living at home, did too.

@Jenny1234 I didn't know of anyone not getting the slipper a few times and I can't think of anyone who didn't get the cane at least once.

@Sharon we must be from two different countries

@Jenny1234 We are, I'm from the UK.

@Rabbit420 Even nowadays some students asked for CPs to be brought back, saying that a paddle (cane) would be a good stimulus for them and woud help them to obtain better results and to be more disciplined and submitted to the authority. In the past, some students chose the paddle instead of detention.

@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

@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?

@Chroniclewriter that shit is never justified. Never

@Sharon Same here. Misbehave in class and it was out to the front and bend over for 2 or 3 whacks of the slipper (plimsoll) across the seat of my knickers. I had that many times.

@Lynda70 That's how it was for us too. There was often a queue when homework was due in. ;)

@Sharon Pity its still not used as i think there are a lot of kids that could do with it

@CurrentName Same here, except church - only because I didn't go to church.

@Sharon

Sorry you went thru that.
Yeah, it's pretty awful
Parents don't realize the scars they leave behind when they do that.

@GailCob I got the cane along with a few others for making explosives. We weren't accused of trying to blow up the school though.

@Sharon Our headmaster specialised in hyperbole. I didn't personally see the incident but I was told there was a great deal of white smoke and literally NO DAMAGE. My personal rexperience of his hyperbole was after two of us, in a bit of horse play, dislodged two wall lockers. Minor stuff, but he caned us for DESTROYING the classroom. That is a[i] verbatim[/i] memory. Happy Days.

@GailCob I've met teachers like that, always exaggerating. Having said that, I remember someone saying some fellow students blew the side of a mobile classroom (think Portacabin) out with some "homemade fireworks".

@Mamapolo2016 Avoiding being in trouble comes easy for you! Others really struggle to follow orders.

@Alfred22 I think it was more a matter of security. Our folks usually explained “Why not?” and it usually made sense to me. I translated that into rules outside our home.

Later down the road, during the Vietnam era, my views changed quite a bit. I didn’t burn flags or occupy buildings, but I did protest and add my voice.

@Chroniclewriter Corporal punishment was available at my state grammar school but was not common. PE teachers sometimes used the slipper, other teachers used a ruler but I think the headmaster was the only one to use the cane and that was not very often. This was in the 60s.

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

@Sophiewargamer Good question about whether handing off the final decision about cane strokes to the parents would allow for equal treatment. Some parents might just "go through the motions" but not place firm strokes. This would be properly termed "parental nullification" of the sentence.

@firefall I transgressed loads of times but I didn't always get caught. :)

@SW-User good on your mum

Haha 🤣 @SW-User

Was this a catholic school?@SweetMae