I Received Corporal Punishment At School

As I have written before, the cane was finally abolished in Danish schools in 1967, four years after I started in school.
My maternal grandmother, who passed away at the age of no less than 102 in 2001, was a teacher back in the days, when the cane was still allowed and also used in schools.
She was not a teacher at my school, though, for which I was grateful, considering her reputation for being some caner!
In fact, she retired in 1967, the very year the cane was banned.
“I was glad I was able to retire at that point,” she said several times.
“How on earth would one be able to maintain discipline in a class without this tool?” she asked.
She certainly did not mind telling about how she caned boys as well as girls during her teaching days – and almost always the allowed maximum of 6 strokes.
“Of course, one was only allowed to cane their fully clothed bottoms, but in the summer time, when the girls were wearing thing summer dresses, it did not matter that much – and if a boy was wearing shorts, one could ‘accidentally’ aim too low and place a welt across his bare thighs!” as she put it!
She was really some lady!

Codrin · M

My grandmother never belted me (here, the belt was the most used implement for keeping a boy on the right way, not the cane). But sometimes she witnessed my punishment, taking care to my Grandpa to hit me only on the bottom, and advising him to redden my bottom well enough. Never my Grandpa stopped to whip me until my grandmother told him when to do it.