The slipper also occupied an unusual position in the hierarchy of punishment. The cane was generally regarded as the...
To modern readers, perhaps the strangest aspect of these recollections is their sheer ordinariness. A teacher keeping a shoe...
By the 1980s, attitudes were changing rapidly. Corporal punishment disappeared from British state schools in 1987, although the legal...
There is a wonderfully evocative possibility buried among the recollections. One former pupil later returned to his old school...
After considering all the recollections, the answer seems to be: sometimes. There certainly appear to have been teachers using...
Perhaps that is why the school slipper remains such a powerful piece of educational nostalgia. Physically, it was an...
The majority of people that report having received / witnessed the slipper nearly always refer to size 11 or...
There was a curious feature of school life in the 1960s and 1970s which will seem very strange to...
At one mixed school there were two principal times for canings. The first came shortly after morning assembly and...
The library stairs happened to stand opposite the principal’s office and therefore provided an excellent excuse for passing through...
The situation was rather different in schools where corporal punishment was administered to both boys and girls. Some former...
Interestingly, several women remember boys displaying considerably more curiosity when a girl had been punished than girls displayed when...