As she made this speech, coy at first but quickly warming to her theme, she had slowly turned, revealing the dreaded cane in her hands and giving it a gentle flex. I know there's no excuse, and really all I can say is-", and for the first time he hesitated, "well, only to say I'm sorry.

She also explained the school rule regarding the official minimum four-stroke penalty for my being out of bounds. Also another brief clip, evidently from out-takes (filmed for the same item but not used), of army lads purporting to discuss the choice between taking a caning and being confined to barracks. United States: TV news report, July 2012: A school district in Tennessee decides that parents will be assumed to consent to CP unless they state to the contrary in writing (instead of the other way round). If you are still all foolish enough to remain silent after that, you will each receive three strokes of the cane. You may not feel lucky for the next few minutes, John, but considering you are not on the receiving end of six of the best, you should be grateful for small mercies.Almost as though it were a favourite pet, Miss Sternwood lightly and affectionately patted her cane, but for the time being left it lying on the desktop. As soon as she has risen from her chair, and in the near silence of the late afternoon, a palpable tension had descended in the room.

Of course, she was not naive to the fact that many of the senior boys and prefects were harbouring a lustful crush. A matching navy jacket, cinched at the waist and flared at the hip, was fastened with a pair of elaborate and oversized silver buttons. She had no idea that he began to see her differently, she just assumed it was cordial familiarity with a regular person he saw on the bus.Miss Sternwood's instrument of correction was said to bear the satin hue of a medium roast coffee bean, yet mottled and streaked with subtle orange highlights.

There was a natural, easy rapport and she had begun this ploy as a tease to try and shake him out of his academic complacency.TV news item (2015) includes brief glimpses of classroom canings at a private high school in Bloemfontein. Colombia: More public whippings on the legs by tribal custom, this time of three FARC rebels for disturbing the peace. It would mean an entry in the school punishment book, which would blacken my otherwise excellent behaviour record. However whether I am wearing a pencil skirt and silk blouse or full leather military attire there is one activity that is common in both environments. In Punjab, half a dozen prisoners are disembarked from a police van and given a public paddling in the street.