The House admin corridor would be empty and she felt certain none of the other boys would still be lingering in the common rooms. Sir -- I quite agree that corporal punishment is necessary for some girls, but surely the natural modesty of those over 15 or 16 years of age should be taken into account. It is often said that we hurt the ones we love the most, and it works both ways, but despite what the old headmaster's cliché might suggest, in reality it always hurts most in exactly the place we would expect.

Make no mistake, even for a senior, six strokes of the cane will be a very salutary lesson and, you can take it from me, it's going to be a lesson that you will not forget in a hurry. What I need to say at this point is that my feelings were not limited just to shock, disbelief and fear.

It was true that additional privileges and freedoms were granted to senior boys, but it was firmly on the basis they should be mature enough to work hard without such close supervision, and the suggestion this was to blame for poor test results had infuriated Sophie during that previous tutorial meeting. She saw that he wore blue, jersey style boxer shorts, close fitting to his firm thighs and with a red trimmed waistband that hugged his flat belly. With a brief detour via the washrooms to splash cold water on his face, Thomas collected his bag from the locker room and headed for the school driveway. It is not a matter that a girl will willingly report to her parents especially a girl of 17, and I think these schools should be exposed for such punishment, as I now understand that girls are spanked on the bare hips for the slightest offence against the school rules in this school. WHATEVER the distress caused to all parties by the hearing at Northwich Magistrates' Court on Friday, the publicity which has followed should at last clear the air of rumours and counter-rumours which have flooded Northwich since a girl was caned at Northwich Grammar School for Girls by the headmistress.

So you have been punished and you think that the best way to celebrate it is enjoying one of our famous ice creams.Sir -- It is interesting to note the attitude of different classes of society towards the question of corporal punishment at school. She half expected continued appeals for leniency, but in the face of her unyielding determination he finally appeared subdued.

She had her bicycle with her, but was too sore to ride all three miles and her parents were worrying about her when she got home. A tall girl with long brown hair stood up and, blushing as everybody looked towards her, walked out of the hall. There had been the usual frantic dash to gather up books, bags and PE kit and now, in the calm aftermath of that storm, this late afternoon appointment was to be the final act in a performance upon which the curtain had risen twelve weeks previously in a January house tutorial meeting. You're a month past your eighteenth birthday, you'll be starting University in less than a year, probably living away from home. 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.Should you dare to submit your bare bottom for a cold caning and receive 100 strokes from my deadliest cane. Seeing her behind her desk, hands apart and holding the cane horizontal at the level of her slender waist, he began to truly feel the magnitude of his predicament. I heard the tall cupboard by the front door open, and the rattle of what I imagined was her cane being taken out. I laid the strokes on with force, but he held tight to the desk, gasping at each impact, finally quite audibly for the last few strokes. As he left with his still weeping daughter, who now goes to another school, Harry Simmonds, a dairy supervisor, of Sidney Street, Greenbank, Northwich, said: "No more comments.