It didn”t sound like the sort of thing Dad would say, despite him having to spank me from time to time. Can you imagine kids today being caned they would no doubt sue the school and would need counselling. These were pre-printed letters the Headmistress then completed after the caning with a strip at the bottom cut of where Mum had signed the acknowledgement that I had brought the letter home. It was a run round the school and its perimeter, more than a cross country, and something I could easily achieve but didn’t want to. Instead, you were only bothered with taking out your anger that someone from this school was seen fighting.

It was all about respect to most of them they didn,t have any for us,we were scruffy little towrags to them to be beaten into shape! Roderick George Austin, of Barrack-row, Herongate, in respect of his daughter Sylvia, aged 13; James Henry Abbott, of Council Houses, Herongate (Molly and Freda, aged 12 and 14); Oakley Turner, Council Houses, Herongate, (Kathleen, 14); and Albert Lee, Blacksmith's Cottages, Herongate (Edna, 13). In fact, it was on the fingers not the palms because of the risk of damage, so already it was tightly controlled, at least in State Government-run schools.One of them tripped up almost in front of me, and the geography master, with whom I generally got on very well, came up, belted me extremely hard around the head, nearly knocking me down, and screamed at me never to do that again. Quote from: sonofshanks on July 06, 2013, 03:24:58 PM It would appear that most people on this th

I am now 60 years old, a man who grew up in a time when parental spanking was usually in my country, Croatia. Needless to say, I was taken straight to the Headmistress’s office where I sat for the rest of the day, working alone. In my first four years at the school all teachers used the slipper, and the cane was reserved for more serious offences. I very seldom earned a school detention, so it was unfortunate that I should get two in the same week, because that meant an automatic summons to the headmaster for a caning.

I hadn’t realised, until she told me, that in Admiral Nelson’s time, the ship’s cat o’ nine tails was kept in a baize bag. I don't have the time or inclination to go into great depth now, but I would venture his post is based on a very minor sample.

It was only when I saw Peter leaving his office I put two and two together and realised mum had something to do with it. When he came back he told me to put the wooden chair in the middle of the room and bend over the back of it. Of course, as an adult, its perfectly possible to experience a caning, but essentially that will always be a voluntary experience.

After summoning all the culprits in the detention class, I saw quite astonished how the Headmistress wrote a long and boring sentence on the blackboard to be copied only 250 times by the girls but 1000 times by the boys! I should have been, and was on my way for what was likely to be another six, when the gym mistress intervened and gave me six with her stick instead. After one such letter led me to yet another painful trip across my mother’s knee before school one morning, I arrived late to school in a black mood, with a burning bottom and a determination to reach new heights of badness that day.

Anyway, coffee and cake, I chose a Cola, and a pleasant half hour’s relax and talk about this and that; scouts, pop music, school etc.A loud swish concluded with my piercing scream as that cane cracked viciously into my knicker clad cheeks.