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I Received Corporal Punishment At School

Did anyone else get their legs smacked at school? It was something that happened frequently at my girls' school. It wasn't as bad as a proper thrashing but the the teachers smacked hard and it hurt a great deal. It was also embarrassing to be walking around with red hand prints on your thighs.

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Stephen11 · 46-50, M

Back in the 80s my parents remove me from the public school I attend when I was 10 year old because they felt I wasn't reaching my full academic potential and they were right, they sent me to a very strict Catholic day come boarding school.
The school was run by the Christian Brothers who were notorious for being tough, my new uniforms was blazer shirt school tie and navy blue corduroy short Pants back in the 80 S short pants were very short and wide on the legs the general rule was that you had to be able to touch
your legs with your fingers tips needed if you couldn't your shorts were to long.
The main punishment was you got slapped on the legs and for what they called serious offenses you get slapped on the bare bottom every boy got slapped once a day across the legs, some of the teacher brought you to the front of the class stand you on the table rubb your leg up and down before slapping the upper thigh of your legs front and back until you cried.
I never forgot the first time I got my legs slapped it was during mathematics class we had a Christian brother who ckeary hadn't a clue what he was doing, so I put my hand up and asked him was he doing the correct question well he came down to me pulled me out of the deck brought me to the top of the class told me to stand on the table and putmy hands on my head then pushed up my shorts stood behind me and started slapped the front of my thighs went to the side of my legs I was in such pain after he that he said I'll finished you off later and made me stand in the front of the class keeping me had on. My head at about 2 pm that afternoon h hold me to Stan back up on the table and he stated to soap the back thighs of my legs and finished off slapping the inside of my legs there were hand prints on my legs he them told me to write on the punishment board that I got two slapping down the rule was of you got 3 slapping in the week you get a spanking on your bare bottom either from the principal or a teacher.

Then you had the embarrassment of going home in my case by bus and everyone looking at your red legs and some of the boys from my old school who wore long pants making fun of me and some of them pinching my legs this was a almost daily occurrence.
When I got home mum would look at my legs and say you were naughty in school and while telling me off she starts removing my shorts put me over her knee and give me what she called a warm-up spanking and send me to my bedroom for my dad to deal with me when he got home which usually ment another spanking.
I remember getting my first bare bottom spanking in school the first of many I was late getting to school because the bus was late punctuality was another big thing in my school and as I was coming in the principal caught me and send me to his office and told me to undress and he be up a little later he came into the room said nothing and caught me put me over his knee and started slapping me with a leather strap for about 10 minutes taken a little break so that I feel the full affect of the strap.

Ii think as you get to age 12 or 13 years ago you start getting more self-conscious of this wearing shorts pants and having people look at your legs especially in winter and that's before you get them slapped I can often remember woman saying things like he looks beautiful in those short pants are there very short on him on a couple of occasions they said let me heat them up for you.

For me the two most embarrassing moments was one day I had a fight with another student after they broke up the fight we were match into the classroom and made undress we were both made to bend over the desk and the principal gave me a spanking and one of the teachers gave the other boy a spanking after that we were made to stand in front of the class and at lunchtime made stand in the school yard as the principal told the whole school that what happened if you fight in school.

At home I was made to wear shorts as my mother liked. Me in shorts and my legs were ready to slap if I did something wrong.
The single most embarrassing moment was in my aunt's house , I hit her daughter and my mum allow me anut deal with me I was 13 years old and my aunt made me undress and called over my cousin to spank my bare bottom.

To be honest I don't think I learned very much in that school academically as all they were interested in was inflicting pain on students.

My main problem was that I was lazy I was putting intelligent but they said I spent a lot of my time daydreaming there were times I didn't have my homework done because I genuinely didn't remember getting it and of course I was slapped across the legs for that.
This day mum made an appointment for me to get my 6 month check up from the doctor and while I was in with him I started staring into thin air and when I came around the doctor ask me if I remembered anything he said to me and said that last think I remembered he sent me to hospital for tests and I was diagnosed with epilepsy which caused all of the memory lapses I change schools in secondary school I was striving in this school but one day while at school I got 7 tonic chronic seizures in the space of a hour and was in and out of hospital for about 3 year before they got the seizures under control but I was able to study on the good days.
Today I'm a consultant pediatrician at a large hospital I'm married with two sons and I believe that spanking should only be used as a last resort.
I somethings wonder how we managed to get through our childhood without all ending up under the care of psychiatrist .
I believe the education system failed me and is still failing our young people today .
But thank God corporal punishment is a think od the past in most os our school.

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yvan6615 · 80-89, M

@Stephen11The disciplinary methods in the religious schools have not changed at all. At the primary level (6-12 years, in the 50's I was enrolled in a public religious school run by the Brothers of the Sacred Hearth All the pupils were in very short trousers from April to November and the current punishment was the slapping of the the legs in front of the class, At the secondary level (13-19 years), I was enrolled in a junior college where the junior students (13-16 years) had to wear the college uniform with the short trousers. The most common punishment was still the slapping of the legs with a thick strap but in the office of the Prefect of discipline or the Director.,For the senior students (16-19-20 years) other punishments were meted out, in addition of the slapping of the legs which was used occasionnally for the students who were still wearing short trousers, At 16 years,, my parents rightly or wrongly deemed that I wasn't mature enough to wear long pants. I grudgingly remained i short trousers up to 18 years old, As I beame unruly , indisciplined, and disobedient at colllege , I was often sent sitting in the office of the prefect of discipline. I didn't go out of that office without strips and welts on my front or back thighs: for the more serious offences a roasted bum.The method the prefect used was sensibly the same : standing on a chair putting up successively the left and right leg of my short, then slapping with a strap the upper thigh of my legs front and back until I hollered and cried at the top of my lungs. You were maybe 12 years old I suppose whileI was 17 or 18 years old.

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yvan6615 · 80-89, M

@Stephen11Dear Stephen, I apologize for being so late to reply to your post. I was almost in the same predicament of you in my teen years, At the puberty, I was afflicted with the Kallmann Syndrom and was diagnosed at 15 as the holder of this hormonal and sexual disease . As you are a pediatrician you know that this condition is serious. I wasn't a normal teenager and I reckon,because of my illness,that my behaviour was not sometimes quite up to the mark, However, my parents, ardent Christians,firm believers in corporal punishments, in spite of all, continued to inflict corporal punishments on me until I moved out at about 22. I was also held to wear short trousers up to 18 years old, It was often embarrassed and abased by the stares, the smirks and some disdainful comments of other people, especially the junior students at college,in long pants. I felt at that time so lonely and so vulnerable, a kind of sick puppy! As my sexuality at 17 was thriving and going in all the directions, to curb these repressed tendencies, the religious Fathers of the Holy Spirit made no bones about giving me the strap on both hands or the heck of a spanking sometimes on my bare fanny, When I enrolled at the university, the corporal punishments at home were going on as my parents deemed them to be necessary. I was then about 20 years old.
In the conclusions of you excellent and insightful post, you wonder how you manage to get through our childhood and I would add our teen years without all ending under the care of a psychiatrist. Well, I had to undergo a therapy which lasted three years You write also that that the education system failed you and is still failing. The religious system has surely failed me at the primary and secondary level but not at the university level I hold a Ph.D in Applied linguistics, M.A, in Latin Studies and four other B.A. with honours in Literature , Philosophy Classical Greek and Education.And you write. Thank God,, corporal punishment is a thing of the past in most of our schools, but there are still 22 States in U.S,A. where the use of the paddle is used to punish the students,Are the corporal punishments to be used as a last resort? Maybe? I am retired now, but when I was teaching at college, many boys and girls told me that they were likely to get a sound spanking if their grades were not satisfactory, A situation pretty close to mine, forty years after. Nothing has changed !

Stephen11 · 46-50, M

@yvan6615
Hi Yvan, sorry I'm so late getting back to you but July , August are very busy months as we tend to do a lot of routine tests on children during those two months so that we're not disrupting their education, however I tested positive of covid on Tuesday so I'll be out of work for at least 10 days.
Yvan, I can understand how you would have had differently in school during your teenage years especially with your illness puberty is difficult enough without medical complications, I'm sure just like me your behavior after you are diagnosed I know mine went down hill, I think the frustration of being in hospital so much got to me I'm sure you have similar experiences.
Having experienced a Catholic School experience I sometimes wonder if these Christian brothers our priests were qualified to teach us I can honestly say I learned nothing under the care after Christian brothers, and I believe that's because you can't use fear as a tool I'm also of the opinion that'some of these religious teachers were pedophiles two of them in particular it was the way that they robbed me legs and the amount of time they spent moving up the legs and putting their fingers up my shorts and touching my private parts before slapping my legs it was usually during break time the other was the principal who usually slapped our bare bottoms but it wes something about the way he removes your shorts he did it very slowley and seemed to enjoy it you could be over his knee for the best part of 15 minutes with another 30 minutes standing in the corner I was very happy to end my days at that school.
When I was 13 years old we moved house I moved to a seaside resort and went to Catholic School run by the presentation sisters in other words nuns, I was very surprised the punishment was usually detention you really need to screw up quite badly to get your legs slapped or a spanking on the bare bottom however I did manage to get both but in all fairness I deserved them. I did have one incident with the local parish priest who seemed to be of the opinion that he could slap the Epilepsy out of me as he believed that it was the work of Satin , so he proceeded to remove my pants and spank my bere bottom on a number of occasions when he was supposed to be hearing my confession.
My days at that school were happy.
I know that in some America States there is still corporal punishment mainly the Bible belt states they still use the paddle, they also continue to use CP in private schools in Australia and in South Korea every thought they'll tell you its banned .
The way children are thought

today is so much different I see my own children delighted to go to school and that's a very positive thing.
However, the education system hasn't changed since the late 1970s it's was out of date when I sat the exams it's something I still continue to fight to change because as a pediatrician I can see first hand the damage it's can do two young people especialy those with disabilities .
Yvan I'll continue this tomorrow night.
Stephen.

StrictSarah

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.

doncha · 51-55, M

@StrictSarah
Thank god this type of thing doesn't happen our schools anymore, I sometimes wonder these teachers must of been very sick people.

Stephen11 · 46-50, M

@doncha I couldn't agree with you more.

MartynW · 46-50, M

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!

doncha · 51-55, M

@MartynW ok

suzie1960 · 61-69, F

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.

yvan6615 · 80-89, M

@suzie1960 @suzie1960 @suzie1960 @suzie1960 @suzie1960 @suzie1960 No not at school but at home when I was wearing short trousers Mom or Dad had me stand up on a chair,put up alternately my pant legs and with a strap or hand slapped forcefully the rear of my legs. The pain was always excruciating and I cried out all of my wits!

isabelrider · 61-69, F

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

oxoxo · 51-55, F

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.

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MartinII · 70-79, M

@Lynda70: It's easy to see that different individuals will respond differently. Some may be deterred, others encouraged to rebel, others again will just take it in their stride, and so on. I wouldn't have thought myself that girls, in general, were more likely to be conformist or subservient than boys - or even more likely to be affected by the pain of the slipper or cane - but I don't know!

Lynda70 · F

@MartinII: It's just what I've read. Personally I tend to agree with your view, everyone is different.

I believe the idea is that boys are more likely to see getting the cane as a badge of honour or rite of passage so deliberately misbehave to get it. In my experience, girls often see it the same way.

jackcros · 70-79, M

@Lynda70: I'm not sure that boys generally misbehaved to be able to show a "badge of honour " rather, being able to sport that badge gave some compensation for a whacking and possibly made them less wary of it than may have been the case for girls for whom it was just a painful experience.

condor · 61-69, M

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

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condor · 61-69, M

@Sharon you must have been a naughty little girl!

Sharon · F

@condor Yes, I was - and still am. ;)

isabelrider · 61-69, F

@condor Us girls would often bare marks from recent smackings on our legs

sgheather · 70-79, M

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.

Nicolina15 · 26-30, F

@sgheather Yes, Ma´am, the thighs are very vulnerable.

SW-User

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!

Nicolina15 · 26-30, F

No, but at home.

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jackcros · 70-79, M

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

rv101010 · 61-69, M

it was the same in my school

boys and / or girls had to climb on a chair , in front of the class , lifting skirt high on the thighs... and the teacher used a thin switch previously collected in the next garden ...

isabelrider · 61-69, F

We never got the switch at school. That must have been very painful on bare thighs.

rv101010 · 61-69, M

@isabelrider: yes it leaves red marks

doncha · 51-55, M

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.

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doncha · 51-55, M

@yvan6615
I wore short pants until I was 14 years old to school, but at home, I wore shorts until age 16, just like you I got my legs slapped at school and at home by my stepmother my father used the strap on my bare bottom until I was 17 years old.

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yvan6615 · 80-89, M

@doncha At 20 years old, at the end of my first year of college as undergraduate, I was not serious at all and not mature enough for my age, As I were granted more freedom than in my teen years I would still felt the breath of my parents on my neck. I reckon that I had to be kept in check because my sexuality was going in all directions, I was also a practical prankster Although,less frequent than the previous years, I was spanked two or three times a month on my bare bum by either my mom or dad.They had no bones about spanking me and my siblings as young adults as longas we remained at home. We were also confined to our room and not allowed to go out some evenings and sometimes for the weekend.
On a summer day, at a baseball game, at he sevent inning I bursted on the ball park with two of my college buddies out of the blue, buck naked streaking around the bases in front of a frenzy crowd of about 3000 spectators, We made the headlines of the local newspaper, and became heroes of the day, As my name appeared in the news, my parents were infuriated and despite the reasons that I brought to them for this streaking, they didn't cool off,So,you don't need to be a genious to guess that will happen, I expected a heck of a trashing.The day after returnig from the university, my dad ordered me to go up in my room and he would join me in a moment, I knew well what these words meant. Althought I thought that I have outgrown the age of corporal punishments, I felt sometimes that I still needed this kind of discipline and it could be appropriate at 20 years old according to the seriousness of the offence.
Dad came with a wooden backed hairbrush in hand,.He sit on the edge of my bed pushed me over his knees, yanked my denim jeans shors and undies down to my ankles and began to roast my pasty and bubble bum., It was a very big brush and hurt like you never believe., and although I tried hard not to holler and cry. I could not do wit, After a few number of hard whacks . I was hollering at the top of my lungs., I was crying and kicking my feet in the air like a ten years old at 20 years of age..This was incredibly humiliating to say the least after being the hero of the day.
One month later, I got caught by mom wanking in my bedroom and with pornogrphic material well hidden under the matress. So she took me downstairs where the other family members were watching television, told them what i had done, put me over her knee in front of them all, pulled my pyjamas and undies down and blistered my bare backside with the hair brush, She said to my siblings that is exactly what they would get if she ever caught them wanking or looking at pornograohy., What a tanning she metedme out , possibly the worst one ever and I dont think that I ever cried louder, yelled higher or kicked my bare feet harder,

doncha · 51-55, M

@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.

Slappedhard · 56-60, M

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

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Slappedhard · 56-60, M

@Tripdelta4 Ouch ouch ouch....I bet that stung and smarted. Did your mom just raise one of your legs and slap the insides or your bare thigh, or did she then raise your other leg? And, if she did slap just one leg was it always the same leg she raised?

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suzie1960 · 61-69, F

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

strictshorts · 61-69, M

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.

SW-User

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!

ThatMusgraveWoman · 70-79, F

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

nevergiveup · M

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

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Oldmanjimbo · 90-99, M

Yes. Corporal punishment was de rigeur back in the 1960s.

oxoxo · 51-55, F

@Oldmanjimbo: and in the 1970s in my neck of the woods

LynnSW68 · 51-55, F

@Oldmanjimbo: It should never have changed, unless it was to be stepped up which it needed.

lochgellylady · 70-79, F

No, just my bottom.

Lynda70 · F

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

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Lynda70 · F

@Oldmanjimbo: Just general misbehaviour. The same sort of things other teachers would smack our bottoms or slipper us for.

Oldmanjimbo · 90-99, M

How many smacks would you receive?

Lynda70 · F

@Oldmanjimbo: It varied but it was quite a lot.

suzie1960 · 61-69, F

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

suzie1960 · 61-69, F

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

lochgellylady · 70-79, F

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

suzie1960 · 61-69, F

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

suzie1960 · 61-69, F

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

isabelrider · 61-69, F

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

isabelrider · 61-69, F

You're lucky to have got such a lenient punishment

Oldmanjimbo · 90-99, M

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.

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Oldmanjimbo · 90-99, M

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

isabelrider · 61-69, F

@Oldmanjimbo you sound like one of my teachers. You're right that it was quick as the we had bare legs and so the children didn't even have to lift our dresses.

rv101010 · 61-69, M

@isabelrider in my school ,there were fréquent corporal punishments.
Générally it was on our open hands . Sometimes for heavier offenses , girls had To lift high their skirt . The skirt was pinned on the blouse and then the girl was trashed on her legs and/or thighs
Then sent To the corner , crying
The boys had To take off their pants before the trashing .
It was So till our 14 y ...

SoreBum · 61-69, M

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

isabelrider · 61-69, F

How often was it used at primary school?

SoreBum · 61-69, M

To be honest not that often. It was far more normal to see someone go over the knee or have to bend over properly.

isabelrider · 61-69, F

@SoreBum: that was more common at my school too

isabelrider · 61-69, F

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

Oldmanjimbo · 90-99, M

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

Oldmanjimbo · 90-99, M

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

Oldmanjimbo · 90-99, M

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

isabelrider · 61-69, F

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

isabelrider · 61-69, F

Were you punished repeatedly for having too short a skirt?

SW-User

Humiliating experience.

topcap2017 · 51-55, M

yes i had my leg smack in school too

isabelrider · 61-69, F

What happened the other times?

anderst · 46-50, M

Be happy that I never get it on school

jackcros · 70-79, M

My school was in Northern England

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Youza75 · 46-50, M

No fortunately!

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