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But more than six," I interjected. "A grown mother can surely take a full dozen, perhaps even a baker's."

Elizabeth offered me another crumpet, which I accepted with a winsome smile. "The Board is worried about excessive punishment," she said. "That incident in Reedley last year--" Because it was just a caning fgs. They didn't rip us limb from limb and in the main we deserved it. There was nothing for it but to cooperate. At the time of the wager, six had seemed like a little thing, nothing to fear. But after seeing Lucas at work, all of us were sobered and alarmed. Even Elizabeth seemed to be trying to figure out a way out. By the late 1960s the traditional "six of the best" had given way in most places to milder penalties of only two or three strokes as the norm, though to some extent this must have been compensated for by the fact that, with the advent of synthetic textiles, trouser material became significantly thinner in the 1960s. Underwear, too, got briefer and more lightweight as fashions changed. Other things being equal, each stroke of the cane was probably therefore sharper in its effect than in the days when trousers were made of wool and underpants of heavy flannel.

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The Head won't stand for that," pointed out Elizabeth. "We must follow the Board's new regulations: only the Headmaster may administer more than six."

Oh, don't be ridiculous," cried Thomas. "As if we need an excuse! Half these girls deserve a beating a day and don't get it. The things they get away with! Do them good, a nice sound caning." She could probably have guessed this from the expression on my face, but I suppose that it was on the school records. I shook my head. This academic paper (2018) is very interesting despite some woolly jargon. It suggests that over a long period the idea that schoolteachers are to be regarded as in effect "substitute parents", and therefore should have the same disciplinary powers in law as parents, became gradually more and more questioned by the public, at least as far as ordinary day schools are concerned (the concept has always seemed to make more sense in relation to boarding schools). Also some worthwhile commentary about how attitudes slowly changed after the second world war, and the fluctuating views of the various teachers' trade unions during the 1970s and 1980s debates about abolition.For one thing, it would take some significant shift in the current teaching culture for this to happen, as there is a definite ‘liberal left’ bias in the profession now and many teachers today would, I am sure, refuse to administer it. Also, whether today’s children would accept such punishment as meekly as my charges did is another consideration! Any individual school could choose not to use CP. Some 20% of secondary schools did so in the 1970s, according to informal guesstimates by STOPP. The remainder were spread between those where canings took place every day and those where CP was almost unheard of, with every possible variation in between. Maybe nobody will win," I said to Lucas, but the look he gave me was more than mere confidence in his skill, it was supreme faith.

But we've got lots more to go, don't we? We've just started. And of course we've got a repeat of this tomorrow and another round on Monday." National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers. This campaign gave rise to a joke on the left of the NUT that NASUWT stood for "National Association of Sadists and Union of Women Torturers".She felt them," he shrugged. "The problem is, she's a hardened one. Six for her is like three for most lasses. She deserved a full dozen." She'd never been caned herself and wondered how it would feel. Curiosity got the better of her, and Pamela tentatively put out her left hand and lightly brought the cane down on her palm. That didn't hurt, she thought. I'd better do it properly if I really want to find out. Pamela lifted the cane again and brought it