So who was caned at school?
Poll: So who was caned at school?
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I love that concept.epicfail said:
I got the cane at school, on my hand - does that count?
Also got the slipper on my arse for cocking around in the indoor cricket nets.
We had a teacher who used to pinch and twist the hair around your ear - not quite sure why, other than he probably enjoyed it.
None of the above was as bad as having to do PE in your undies after forgetting to bring PE kit.
Had my ears twisted by the headmaster at primary school. It hurt worse than the slipper did!Also got the slipper on my arse for cocking around in the indoor cricket nets.
We had a teacher who used to pinch and twist the hair around your ear - not quite sure why, other than he probably enjoyed it.
None of the above was as bad as having to do PE in your undies after forgetting to bring PE kit.
Caned and they also used an outsized gym shoe .
The cane was across the palms the gym shoe was across the backside .
Most of my secondary school education was at British forces schools overseas so discipline was pretty strict and uniformly enforced .
If you misbehaved in a female teachers class you were sent with a note to see one of the male PE teachers for punishment , both were Welsh international rugby players , you never visited them twice !
The cane was across the palms the gym shoe was across the backside .
Most of my secondary school education was at British forces schools overseas so discipline was pretty strict and uniformly enforced .
If you misbehaved in a female teachers class you were sent with a note to see one of the male PE teachers for punishment , both were Welsh international rugby players , you never visited them twice !
One teacher had a broken ruler he called the dynamite stick. It had been broken so many times it was held together with tape.
I had a few lashes but not half as many as some.
As the school disciplinarian it could be gruesomely funny at times. Other teachers would send unruly pupils to our class for him to punish them. So we'd get to watch terrified children walk through the classroom door knowing what awaits.
I don't agree with corporal punishment and I've plenty of reasons.
I had a few lashes but not half as many as some.
As the school disciplinarian it could be gruesomely funny at times. Other teachers would send unruly pupils to our class for him to punish them. So we'd get to watch terrified children walk through the classroom door knowing what awaits.
I don't agree with corporal punishment and I've plenty of reasons.
I got 6 of the best for playing "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" on the school gramophone.
I felt I should be praised for voluntarily playing classical music
It was most unfair in my mind and it changed my character forever. I lost all respect for the school and authority from that day onwards.
I felt I should be praised for voluntarily playing classical music
It was most unfair in my mind and it changed my character forever. I lost all respect for the school and authority from that day onwards.
I got it once, for swearing. I was grassed up by a prefect for saying "knackers yard". Despite my protests, I got 3 of the best. The headmaster was a martinet, who thought he ran Shrewsbury. he ran an indifferent middle school in an equally indifferent suburb of Bradford, and was also a massive
. We had another teacher who used to like dragging kids by their hair to8 see the head. I got dragged by my hair for suggesting rather than learn the 14 times table, we could just learn the 7 times table twice.
Next day I came in with a crew cut.
I also recall watching a friend of mine getting at least 6 cane strokes on the backside, then kicked hard up his arse and dragged across the classroom. I think his crime was talking.
This lad was in foster care after years of physical abuse and neglect. He was once tied to a bed for 2 plus days while his mum went on the piss, amongst plenty of beatings and being barely fed.
He pissed his pants as he was dragged across the classroom.
When someone tells me corporal punishment is now sadly lacking, they can go f
k themselves. Just the once, when I was about 11, along with about a few others for going behind the school hall to collect snow for snowball fights in the playground, after we'd been told not to.
My mother complained and the headmaster agreed that the punishment did not fit the crime and apologised to us all, whilst making it clear that rules were still rules that were to be obeyed!
As an aside, the teacher in question was an evil old bh who turned nasty after she didn't get the deputy head position after the previous deputy head died. It only came out years later that she was also colluding with a parent of an expelled child to make false accusations of child abuse against the headmaster.
Said headmaster was a wonderful man and a truly gifted teacher who had nothing but a positive effect on generations of boys at the school. The only disadvantage of me being an atheist is that I don't believe in the hell that I would love to believe she's rotting in...
My mother complained and the headmaster agreed that the punishment did not fit the crime and apologised to us all, whilst making it clear that rules were still rules that were to be obeyed!
As an aside, the teacher in question was an evil old b
h who turned nasty after she didn't get the deputy head position after the previous deputy head died. It only came out years later that she was also colluding with a parent of an expelled child to make false accusations of child abuse against the headmaster.Said headmaster was a wonderful man and a truly gifted teacher who had nothing but a positive effect on generations of boys at the school. The only disadvantage of me being an atheist is that I don't believe in the hell that I would love to believe she's rotting in...
Lol, I've taken the punishment for turning up with a shaved head. My emotional memory still remembers some of the warm ears I've been given. I can feel the heat to this day.
I've just remembered another teacher. He would pull hairs on the side of your head and pull at the back of your hands. Painful and easy to do with no marks left. I'd love to meet him as an adult but probably better for the both of us if I don't.
I've just remembered another teacher. He would pull hairs on the side of your head and pull at the back of your hands. Painful and easy to do with no marks left. I'd love to meet him as an adult but probably better for the both of us if I don't.
A lot of people on this thread are talking about situations where corporal punishment was abused by people who had something wrong with them. Such anecdotes are horrifying but don't address the question of how corporal punishment compares with other forms of discipline enforcement.
In my case I wasn't offered a choice but if I had been then I would have chosen the cane over the alternatives which would have been suspension at the least.
In my case I wasn't offered a choice but if I had been then I would have chosen the cane over the alternatives which would have been suspension at the least.
singlecoil said:
A lot of people on this thread are talking about situations where corporal punishment was abused by people who had something wrong with them. Such anecdotes are horrifying but don't address the question of how corporal punishment compares with other forms of discipline enforcement.
In my case I wasn't offered a choice but if I had been then I would have chosen the cane over the alternatives which would have been suspension at the least.
I've been hit. I've learned to not feel the pain. Corporal punishment doesn't work. I remember once trying not to laugh when I was being hit because the only way to make it stop was to pretend it hurt.In my case I wasn't offered a choice but if I had been then I would have chosen the cane over the alternatives which would have been suspension at the least.
There's never an excuse for beating children.
I would not have chosen the cane.
I wasn't naughty enough to get caned although it was the punishment of last resort at my school.
I did get slippered by the head of PE. Short sharp shock and far better than the alternatives of detention which I would have had to explain to my folks. A bit of a badge of honour as well amongst my peers. Would have taken a caning as well if I had had to keep my misdemeanours away from my parents.
I did get slippered by the head of PE. Short sharp shock and far better than the alternatives of detention which I would have had to explain to my folks. A bit of a badge of honour as well amongst my peers. Would have taken a caning as well if I had had to keep my misdemeanours away from my parents.
Driller said:
Went to school in SA during the eighties. Caning was par for the course for any offence: forgetting your cadet socks or getting less than 50% in a history exam to name two.
It was getting phased out when I was at school there in around 95. Although we'd still ask if we could take a couple lashes instead of after school detention. It saved having to tell your parents 
Several times, starting when I was 11 years old. Sometimes the whole class was beaten for the actions of one boy.
One boy was made to box with the gym instructor, no headgear. The boy was 15, teacher was 30+, the boy ended up in hospital.
The culture of beating and violence started with the teachers and spread throughout the school
One boy was made to box with the gym instructor, no headgear. The boy was 15, teacher was 30+, the boy ended up in hospital.
The culture of beating and violence started with the teachers and spread throughout the school
Castrol for a knave said:
I got it once, for swearing. I was grassed up by a prefect for saying "knackers yard". Despite my protests, I got 3 of the best. The headmaster was a martinet, who thought he ran Shrewsbury. he ran an indifferent middle school in an equally indifferent suburb of Bradford, and was also a massive .
We had another teacher who used to like dragging kids by their hair to8 see the head. I got dragged by my hair for suggesting rather than learn the 14 times table, we could just learn the 7 times table twice.
Next day I came in with a crew cut.
I also recall watching a friend of mine getting at least 6 cane strokes on the backside, then kicked hard up his arse and dragged across the classroom. I think his crime was talking.
This lad was in foster care after years of physical abuse and neglect. He was once tied to a bed for 2 plus days while his mum went on the piss, amongst plenty of beatings and being barely fed.
He pissed his pants as he was dragged across the classroom.
When someone tells me corporal punishment is now sadly lacking, they can go fk themselves.
That exact thing happened to me in 1973.. We had another teacher who used to like dragging kids by their hair to8 see the head. I got dragged by my hair for suggesting rather than learn the 14 times table, we could just learn the 7 times table twice.
Next day I came in with a crew cut.
I also recall watching a friend of mine getting at least 6 cane strokes on the backside, then kicked hard up his arse and dragged across the classroom. I think his crime was talking.
This lad was in foster care after years of physical abuse and neglect. He was once tied to a bed for 2 plus days while his mum went on the piss, amongst plenty of beatings and being barely fed.
He pissed his pants as he was dragged across the classroom.
When someone tells me corporal punishment is now sadly lacking, they can go f
k themselves. During a science lesson I was toying with a slow drip from a bench tap. My mate turned the tap on full and the water splashed onto my hand and thence onto the pupils and teacher who were gathered at the bench.
Blaming me, the teacher grabbed me by the hair and dragged me to the corner of the classroom where he left me until the end of class.
It really hurt.
Anyhoo, after school that day was a 'football film' group, run by said teacher. As I loved football I always attended.
Someway through the film the classroom door opened abruptly. To my surprise, my father appeared. A no nonsense, tough as nails East Ender, he quietly asked me and the teacher to accompany him out of the room.
Once in the corridor, my dad asked me to confirm what had happened (a mate had told his mum who told mine).
He then asked the teacher if he'd dragged me by the hair. The teacher confirmed this.
At that my dad grabbed the teacher who had wild, curly, 1970s perm, by the hair and proceeded to march him up and down the corridor, all the time berating him for doing that to a child.
Letting go, my father turned on his heel and left without another word. Nothing was ever mentioned about it at school and the teacher left very soon afterwards.
That's the 70s for you!
Edited by Blib on Wednesday 24th April 10:01
Listening to some on here I think I must have been quite fortunate.
I was at primary school in the 1970's and got skippered once by an absolute of a teacher who seemed to get a kick out of bullying kids under the age of 10. It was nothing compared to what we got in Mosque classes so I didnt mention it to my dad, but I remember the dad of one of the other kids coming into school and threatening to punch him if he ever did it again.
I was at a relatively middle-class (for East Lancashire) Grammar School in the 80's and the kids were very well behaved so the idea of anybody being caned was unthinkable.
I was at primary school in the 1970's and got skippered once by an absolute
of a teacher who seemed to get a kick out of bullying kids under the age of 10. It was nothing compared to what we got in Mosque classes so I didnt mention it to my dad, but I remember the dad of one of the other kids coming into school and threatening to punch him if he ever did it again.I was at a relatively middle-class (for East Lancashire) Grammar School in the 80's and the kids were very well behaved so the idea of anybody being caned was unthinkable.
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