Girls slippered or caned in trousers

Talking to people here it seems that my sister was in a minority when getting CP at school. She was often caned or slippered in trousers. Did this happen to anyone else?

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Certainly not me - well, I am male!

CP was a rare last resort in my schools, and though I knew of three or four boys who had the cane from the Headmaster, in my seven senior-school years, I knew of no girls being caned or slippered.

That would have been by the female Deputy Head anyway but I never heard of any instances or the possibility, despite the usual news-channel, the playground samizdat.

bravo55 · 70-79, M

@ArishMell Absolutely my experience too, I and other boys received CP on a regular basis, usually the cane across the backside sometimes the slipper (plimsoll size 11 chalked to keep track of who and who hasn't been "done" when giving CP to the whole class of 30 boys) I never saw or heard of one girl getting any CP, bare backside or not.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@bravo55 There was a common belief in English schools that girls were never punished physically, but some women here on SW say they were. So it may have been uncommon, and probably depended very much on the individual schools.

A mass punishment of a whole class though... One has to wonder at the sense and justice in that!

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Tradcp I don't know why the belief, either.

Perhaps it was less common; but we should also recall that to a large extent the boys and girls even in mixed schools in our day tended not to mix much below about Fifth Form age. Playground gossip also tended to be within one's own Year. So we might not have heard much about what happened to the girls.

Sharon · F

@Tradcp My school certainly slippered and caned girls, just as often as boys. I got the slipper loads of times and the cane quite a few times. In 6th form, where we were allowed to wear trousers, I got slippered and caned through them, just the same as the boys.

Tradcp · 56-60, M

@Sharon thanks Sharon. No need for females to have been treated any differently in my opinion. I am sure it stung immensely

Sharon · F

@Tradcp I agree. Sexism is always unfair but it's not always possible to determine which sex it's unfair to. If a boy gets six of the slipper and girl gets an hour detention, for the same offence and all else being equal, which was treated less favourably?

bravo55 · 70-79, M

@Sharon In my school that was more often the case.

Sharon · F

@bravo55 What was? Girls getting detention and boys getting the slipper? Which do you think got the worse punishment?

bravo55 · 70-79, M

@Sharon Yes that's correct. I would sooner have detention.