I got the slipper at school

One of our teachers at primary school kept an old slipper of her husbands in the drawer of her desk, so when a member of the class misbehaved they were called to the front to retrieve the slipper from the desk. The teacher would then bring her chair to the front of the class, and sit on it, and receive the slipper from the miscreant, who would then bend over her knee to receive the adjudged punishment from the slipper on their bottom. The punishment being over, the slipper was then returned to the desk by the pupil, who then had the pleasure of sitting for the rest of the lesson on the hard chair while the lesson continued!
Happened to me several times with that particular teacher and let me tell you it did me no harm whatever!

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SW-User

Sounds like you deserved it and actually learned to like and accept it

jackieash

@SW-User ...which proves it wasn't a deterrent.

SW-User

@jackieash this could be true , for some. For others just the thought of the punishment is a deterrent

jackieash

@SW-User But as the thread reads, there looks like there were more slipperings and canings than teaching. Surely a eterrent would only be needed once at most. My mum tells me she was at the only school in town that allowed caning. And the discipline record at that school was notoriously bad.

jackieash

@jackieash ...and if you got caned for getting questions wrong, I'd have been caned about six times a day. I'm thankful there was no corporal punishment when I was at school.

SW-User

@jackieash this is true and we do have to remember that everything was different back then. Not just discipline. We all evolve. Did this work back in the day? Again I say yes for some, no for others

ArtieKat · M

@jackieash I don't remember any schools where the cane was administered for getting questions wrong in class - only ever for disciplinary matters. And serious breaches at that.

jackieash

@ArtieKat Neither do I but according to some others on this thread, they did. These are people considerably older than me and at Catholic schools. I had already said I was not at school when the cane was in use.

ArtieKat · M

@jackieash I was well aware that corporal punishment was banned in State schools before you were born - and in private schools before you were old enough to attend. I got the impression that you had spoken to your mother about her ownexperiences.

jackieash

@ArtieKat I did. Mum also said although the cane was in use, some teachers assaulted pupils. I mean slaps across the face, being shaken about like a bag of rubbish and in one case, kicked. It sounds like hell.