The one Caroline wore looked shorter, which was easily to bee seen as she stood beside Jenny Woods, whose skirt was regulation length. Their doctor" must needs be sent for to assure them that their dear children's posteriors have not been permanently damaged.

Had the offence been a more serious one (of course, improper uniform and impertinent sassing are not taken lightly here, but they are not like theft, fighting or smoking) I would have had Jenny expelled and sent home with the next ship. It was a very long walk back to school – three miles if I remember correctly, and before I was taken to the hospital by car my blouse sleeve had to be cut from my arm and a temporary splint and sling put on to make me more comfortable. After we had taken a good look around, we made our way back to the shed door, and it was LOCKED … We didn’t know what to do, so started looking around for another way out. She walked back into her office and the girl was still in place, but with tears streaming down her face. She proposed to him that in all instances in which she needed to sentence corporal punishment, that she did so, but delayed the punishment until the end of the week.While the VP was not doing the paddling, she needed to emphasize that she was fully in control of these proceedings.

Things went on pretty smoothly for some time, but I found it quite impossible to avoid coming under the rod every now and then, the chastisement getting more severe on every fresh occasion. Sir -- It is interesting to note the attitude of different classes of society towards the question of corporal punishment at school. I finally told her that it was quite alright when the hem of her school skirt was midway up her tighs. As he seized and threw me on the governess's lap, Miss Birch securing my head well under her left arm, speedily pulled up dress and skirts, till my fat little bottom was exposed in a tight fitting pair of drawers, my legs being left to kick about, although I was quite firmly secured, and to all intents quite helpless, and my toes could scarcely touch the ground.I will tell you of a fearful birching, the last I had before being sent to the Convent School: it does not matter what the fault was, but it must have been something very serious. No-one could have been happier than I, but from the minute Mummie arrived until the time she left, I would hang onto her … hardly leaving her room to walk, and weep away uncontrollably. I still chuckle years later, when I remember Isobel … a little girl from Scotland who spent a very uncomfortable first week of school. Next we put on quite pretty yellow and white striped blouses, which look very nice under a navy blue pleated tunic. We all ate a hearty breakfast that day and then dashed to the notice board where we signed up for the various races in which we wished to compete.

First of all came white flannel combinations, which when new were white and soft but later after many washings in strong soap became as scratchy as a hair shirt. I expect that Matron, after many years of greeting new children on admissions day, had a very good idea of what thoughts were going through our minds – but her face registered no emotion at all, she might as well have been counting socks on wash day for all we could tell. The higher middle and professional classes, who build and maintain empires, and do most things worth doing in the world, take it as a matter of course, and are pleased that their boys and girls are flogged into the solid virtues necessary to continue the work. Well, is it not true that after he reminded you that neither sneaker socks nor earrings are part of the uniform you were trying to argue with Mr.I am home on holiday from a boarding school, where I was severely caned by the headmistress for not having my work done; I was stripped and given ten strokes. On the way out of the dining room we were able to pick up any letters or packages from home; and how cherished those things from home became.