I attended a co-educational boarding school in the early seventies. Corporal punishment was a regular event. Boys would receive the cane from the headmaster for serious offences and Girls the bath-brush from the senior mistress. Slipperings were handed out to both sexes officially by any teacher and unofficially by prefects generally for dormitory related offences. There was also one other unofficial dormitory punishment and that is the subject of this memory. If the pupils in a dormitory felt that one of their number had acted in an unforgivable way they could raise the matter with a dormitory prefect. Stealing, borrowing
This memory is about the most severe caning I ever received. I attended a co-educational boarding school in the early seventies. Corporal punishment was a regular event. Boys would receive the cane from the headmaster for serious offences and girls the bath-brush from the senior mistress. For lesser offences there was a system of black marks which in themselves would attract a detention. Two black marks in a week would move you on to the ‘c’ list which would attract the cane. Some offences such as smoking, drinking and ‘behaving in a manner likely to bring the school into disrepute’
I attended a co-educational boarding school in the early seventies. Corporal punishment was a regular event. Boys would receive the cane from the headmaster for serious offences and Girls the bath-brush from the senior mistress. Being a co-educational boarding school there were a lot of rules to prevent boyfriend/girlfriend relationships from progressing too far. The girl’s dormitories and the area around the outside were out of bounds for boys and the boy’s dormitories and the area around the outside were out of bounds for girls. Being caught in either place would earn you a caning or a bath brushing. In
Following the account of his first caning, CT now tells us about dormitory discipline. At the boarding school I attended in the early seventies the rules after lights out were simple. Anything other than sleeping or going to the toilet was forbidden. Dormitories contained about fifteen boys and were policed by one or two Dormitory Prefects. Their official tasks were to make sure the dormitory was kept tidy, to call the matron if a boy was sick and to ‘send out’ boys who did anything but breath after lights out. They were not under any circumstances allowed to administer any
Between 1969 and 1974 I attended a co-educational state run boarding school just north of London where there were three forms of corporal punishment. Most offences would attract the slipper; any member of staff could inflict this. Boys committing generally serious offences would attract a visit to the headmaster and his cane. Girls would be sent to the senior mistress and her bath brush. Dormitory monitors and prefects were not officially allowed to impart corporal punishment but while I was there managed to successfully, for the most part, find a way round this. During the five years that I attended