I Received Corporal Punishment At School

Yes…at Primary our teacher would smack the backs of my knees hard for even minor bad behaviour, going to break with red knees for all to see. Short skirt and ankle socks provided no protection from teachers smacking hand. The hand smacking was always in front of class, facing the wall, hands on head, followed by a spell in the naughty corner.

Got legs smacked at infant school, then at junior school it was my bottom that got it, usually a slipper, then at senior school suddenly my palms were glowing. A proper exploration of my body!

A slippering for wearing skirt that were too short would often include a whack on the back of each thigh, just where it would be covered if our skirts were the approved length. It became something of a badge of honour to have slipper marks like that.

It did sting. I think a smack on the thighs hurts more than a smack on the bottom

Yes they did that to girls and boys in the juniors but later the slipper was used and then the cane after that. Boys mostly got these things though.

Yes I got my legs smacked at school, all us boys had to wear short trousers and we got smacked for the most trivial of things. Girls also got smacked as they wore short dresses and knee socks in the 70s. It was enjoyable though when the girls got smacked and I used to stare at the red marks on their legs!!. It was good to wear long trousers at high school, but girls still got smacked until knee length skirts came in then we all got slipper

At primary school, if you misbehaved, then you would get smacked by the teacher. That would involve either, if necessary rolling up the sleeve, getting you arm slapped, or else, at this time, boys wore short trousers, pulling up the trouser leg, or skirt if it was a girl, just enough to allow the thigh to be slapped.
I remember there was a dinner lady who had a glove she carried with her and used to protect her hand while she gave a slapping. I always used to hope she would never catch me getting up to mischief, because, with that glove, she used to give your legs a really good slapping. It always used to make me cry.
I got slapped several times and used to fear that happening, yet I found the punishment exciting.

No, but at home.

I remember one boy having his bare thigh smacked in the school hall at my junior school by a teacher. A girl said "that sounded like a firework miss", the teacher replied "I bet it felt like one too!" I'm sure she was right!

Both boys & girls had their legs smacked at my primary school, standing on a chair girls had the hem of their skirts raised and boys had the legs of their shorts rolled up so that the very top of the legs could be smacked. It was more painful than a smacked bottom & just as embarrassing particularly because slaps landed on the visible part of the legs and left marks for some time

I went to an all-boys school most of the kids wore long pants from age 11 to 13 but my mum made me wear short pants to the top of my thighs for disciplinary reasons the other boys would get slapped on the hands my teachers would make me go to the top of the class and stand up the table make me spread my legs apart and slowly come to me first he rub my legs then pull my shorts up and start slapping my back thighs and then turn me around to slap the front of my legs usually about 6 times before giving another 6 on the inner legs to be followed up by 6 very hard slaps on the side of my legs I will usually be crying after the first 6 all the other boys be laughing at me it was so embarrassing at break time a few of the boys would run up to me and comment on my red legs this continued to age 13, 2 or 3 times a week it was worse in summer as I usually got a very good dark brown tan on my legs which meant I was slapped harder to make my legs red wen I got home and mam saw my legs she just asks me if I did something wrong I say yes and she order my to prepare myself for a spanking that meant to strip bare and stand in the middle of the sitting room after about 30 min she come in put me over her knee to slap my bare bottom until that is rosy red.

At my junior school in the mid 1970s it was very common to receive a bare leg smacking. It involved a teacher delivering anything up to six painful slaps to either the back, outside or front of one of our bare thighs. The teachers were experts at this punishment and left most children in floods of tears afterwards. The lads wore very very short shorts and knee length socks and they sported very visable red slap marks after their smacking for a good hour afterwards. The girls wore skirts and knee length socks and their skirts were lifted half way up their thighs so they were slapped on their bare legs too. The pain was excruciating and slapped legs were left stinging and smarting afterwards particularly on cold winter mornings. And for the record being slapped on the front or outside of your bare thigh was more painful than having the backs of your legs rattled

@Tripdelta4 To answer your question first let say she was my step mum and was a very nasty person she liked to have an audience before she spanks me if my step-sister had some friends over then she would call me to take off all my clothes and stand in front of them nacked for about 30 min before she came in and asks me to go across her knee and spank me with her hand 10 slaps and then with a thick leather strap over the side of the chair and give me another 10 at that point my bottom would be rosy red she makes me stand up and go back to the centre of the room in front of the girls it was very humiliation she was that evil she didn't spank my bottom much I say about 20 times I recall one time she did the same thing in front of her friends however she really liked slapping my bare legs my dad was the one who really sparked my bottom. did you ever get your legs slapped?. I really hated getting the inside thighs slapped and she liked to do that and the back of my legs if we out shopping on the bus she would always find a reason to slap my legs again she had an audience things was never the same after she married my dad.

I can remember a boy when at Junior school (7-11) being made to stand on a chair and have his bare thighs smacked. (Early 1970s late 60s). All boys wore fairly brief grey shorts to school in those days. I never had my legs smacked myself but at one point the school head did threaten to dust the back of my shorts for fighting with another boy. Neither of us told on each other and we became good mates afterwards.

@Isabelrider. Mostly 3 or 4 whacks with the slipper across the seat of my knickers.

Yes - smacked legs at school and at home. Stung like crazy.

yes i did and the teacher would some times put a child over there knee and spank them on there cloths i think if they could have removed the pants they would have spanked bare bottoms

Smacked thighs was the punishment given at my infant school (6-8). Easy to administer as boys wore shorts and girls wore skirts.Given over the teacher's knee or standing up.
I remember one boy getting it in an echoey hall, a girl said "that sounded like a firework, miss"
"I bet it felt like one too" the teacher replied.
I think it must have done too!

No, just my bottom.

Yes, several times in primary school and a few times in secondary.

As for the short skirt punishment, perhaps less of the slipper and more of the cane might have made you respect authority more.

@Oldmanjimbo. Not the badge of honour itself but it was worth taking the risk to see how short I could wear my skirt.

@Isabelrider. More times than I can count but I didn't get my thighs whacked every time, only a few times actually.

@Isabelrider. I suppose we were but 3 or 4 hard whacks with the slipper wasn't considered lenient.

@Oldmanjimbo. You could be right. I just did what I wanted to do, if I got caught I got the slipper or the cane.

We might have got 3 or 4 the first time but not if it was repeated

You're lucky to have got such a lenient punishment

I smacked legs at school. It had the benefit of being a very quick and convenient punishment. No time was wasted with this like detentions or writing lines. It was a punishment that could be given instantly on the spot.

Smacked legs were something I gave fairly often as a teacher. It is a quick and effective punishment to give.

I saw it a few times in primary school but never actually got it

@suzie1960 It seems to me that the punishment was not hard enough if it was worse the risk.

@jackcros that sounds very similar to the procedure at my school. What country did you go to school in?

@suzie1960. If it had been a repeated offence I would have given you more. 3 or 4 whacks obviously didn't work .

@suzie1960 did you feel the "badge of honour" was worth the pain of slippered legs?

@oldmanjimbo it was a quick punishment but a surprisingly painful one.

Were you punished repeatedly for having too short a skirt?

Humiliating experience.

What happened the other times?

yes i had my leg smack in school too

Be happy that I never get it on school

My school was in Northern England

No fortunately!