After the sixth stroke I was told to pull my pants up and to behave in her class in future. That night, as I examined my red, smarting bottom in the mirror, I determined that I would do exactly that.

An HD version of this video is also available through Sting Raw at Clips4Sale for customers who wish to use an alternative processor.Reconstruction of boy being caned at Skegby Hall school - we see two boys waiting outside the headmaster's office. One goes inside and from his point of view he is talked to be the headmaster and then receives the cane. We cut to the boy waiting outside who winces at the noise. Shots of boys in playground at Skegby Hall school. Peter Plant interview with Nottinghamshire councillor Brenda Borrett, Chairman of the Social Services Committee about the reasons why the council found it necessary to reintroduce corporal punishment in the approved boys schools, particularly with the need to curb the increase in assaults on staff. Interview with the headmaster at the school, George Lincoln, who talks about his belief that having the right to use the cane deters violent incidents at the school and giving examples of how these incidents have decreased since he has used the cane. Interviews with some of the boys asked whether or not they considered the right to cane a good idea. Mr. Gibbens, 54, will hear evidence with one assessor, Mr. W.J. Wardle, superintending inspector of the Home Office Children's Department. Your parents and I agreed it might be time for you to benefit from just such treatment, and nothing I have seen today has changed my mind. Infact the power of your epiphany convinces me that such a course of action will be well received, and particularly effective. Consequently, before you leave me, and as I believed you were forewarned, I am going to give you a small taste of old school correction.’ The master who took the photographs was the author of a letter, published in the Daily Mail in March, which fiercely criticised the way approved schools are run.

There have been well substantiated reports of this kind before. A staff member alleges that it is happening all the time.The official studied colour slides taken by the master of injuries suffered by the boys, three of whom are aged 14 and the other 15. Withheld

The former teacher says he has since passed on details of two further alleged incidents reported to him by a teacher still at the school. Good morning, err, afternoon err …’ I stammered, suddenly confused as to the appropriate greeting for precisely noon. The cane is such an elegant implement. Beautiful, long, generally smooth, and sometimes with a well-crafted crook handle. It's an implement that can become the subject of objectification. I remember my first erections were all about it, rather than any human flesh! To this day, I still dream of it, although I would say I have the balance between cane and flesh rather better sorted these days!

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We are not prepared to comment on these pictures without an opportunity to investigate their authenticity. As at least one, however, appears to suggest punishment in excess of that permitted under the Approved School Rules, we urge you in the interests of all concerned to name the approved school so that an immediate investigation can be carried out." Many of them are violent. About 20 p.c. of them have never yet committed an offence but are merely beyond parental control. I have a feeling, Mt Mather, that you will be asking for more of these before we have finished. But let’s see…’ I thought for a moment, but in reality I was already under her spell, and being enticed into her world and her way of thinking. I knew ‘petulant’ was an accurate way of describing my behaviour towards them, much of the time. I knew I would frequently choose to be childish and selfish. I knew that I shirked jobs around the house, and didn’t help out as much as I should. The half-beliefs and excuses I had used, convinced myself of, and hidden behind so much recently, were lying in tatters on the floor, and I could see their pathetic futility and smell their stink of faux self-righteousness. I was properly embarrassed by my own immaturity. CASE No. 3: Age 15, father deserted home 12 years ago, mother now housekeeper to another man. Intelligence "high average" (IQ 115).

On a coffee table in the classically Georgian front room, there was a jug of water and two glasses. She poured two glasses and handed me one. She sat down in an armchair. She led me into the next room, and had me stand at one end of the dining table, looking down its length. I would have thought that this was far too brutal. I would be very concerned if a boy was brought to me with these injuries."But there appear to be other establishments which are doing the community a bad turn. The Home Office should make a very searching inquiry into the whole system. Four out of five doctors to whom the photographs were shown consider the caning, in at least one case, was too harsh and exceeded the maximum punishment permitted by Home Office regulations. The Hearing : When the Headmaster of St Andrew's Comprehensive School discovers that four of his upper sixth form girls have been shoplifting, he decides that corporal punishment is called for. All four girls are summoned to his study and sentenced to six strokes of the cane. However, after the first three girls have been disciplined, Corinne Wright, the ringleader of the group, refuses to be caned and walks out of the Headmaster's office, going home completely unpunished.