The slipper (the right slipper!) can be an extremely effective instrument for striking the buttocks. Its effect is quite...
I have come across several accounts from adults who, despite never having experienced corporal punishment at school themselves, later...
One big factor for me that hasn’t been mentioned is the chance of my mother finding out I’d been...
I cannot recall any status attaching to receiving CP at either my Junior School or my Secondary School, with...
Detention involved having to write an essay on a set topic. I just loved writing essays when I was...
Although I wouldn’t have known it at the time, if I’d been caned I might now be able to...
When I was at school, the answer would definitely have been detention, although toward the end of my school...
There are few pleasures more agreeable to the devoted cricket enthusiast than leafing through the yellowing pages of an...
There are certain implements which, by their very nature, seem wholly unsuited to the administration of corporal punishment. The...
In the hard-edged classrooms and draughty gymnasiums of post-war Scotland, discipline was regarded not merely as part of education,...
There are certain sounds that never truly leave a generation. The squeak of plimsolls across polished wooden floors. The...
In those days, school discipline carried with it a sense of theatre as much as punishment. Every master seemed...