While the VP was not doing the paddling, she needed to emphasize that she was fully in control of these proceedings. Still papa would always go into her sanctum at the conclusion of my whipping, to talk the matter over with my governess. With the thought if making a real difference he lifted the paddle high in the air and brought it down as hard as he could swing.

The Bexhill School series of books follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of two young ladies as they progress through their time at an imaginary girls' school in the late 1950s, when corporal punishment was still a mainstay of discipline. She asked the coach to begin and stated that all eight swats needed to be “very hard” as she see smoking in school as a very big problem. I could see it was not only her first time here, in her four years at the institute, she had never been punished.

Please know that with that terrible kind of misconduct you have shown, I can not be lenient in any way. Before asking my secretary to sent her in, I placed the slipper on my desk, so that the girl would see it. There was uproar amongst the Bexhill team and the school's supporters, packed along one side of the pitch. Their doctor" must needs be sent for to assure them that their dear children's posteriors have not been permanently damaged. C." of Athy, now that he (or she) has had time to calm down, will tell us where the "brutality" in giving a good strapping to a girl of 17 who is disobedient and indisciplined comes in.

After dressing we assembled in the ‘common room’ and marched down another long stone floored hallway to the strains of a march played on the piano by one of the ‘big girls’. It is ridiculous to suggest that any sane headmistress would strip and flog a girl, to satisfy her own brutal instincts. She had already received a severe caning on her last visit, and it positively looked like it hadn’t been enough to teach her a lesson.I belonged to Windsor so my rosette was purple, Lytten was green, Dickens red and Thackeray yellow, as far as I can remember. The panelled walls and beamed ceiling seemed warm and I never got tired of studying the faces looking down on us from the life-sized portraits on the walls. I would think of all the million and one things I wanted to tell her, but not be able to say a word. She was an extremely large woman, who must have continually worn taffeta petticoats because she rustled as she walked – swish-swish up and down the rows between our desks.

I always enjoyed the walk through the village, and one of the big decisions to be made each Sunday was with whom you were going to walk and of course sit next to in church. girl and large dog ride in wagon pulled by an older child / a french bulldog, wearing a harness and a hat, sits on a plastic bicycle seat / toddler. Imagine a few currants sometimes embedded in this and then be reminded by an index finger in the small of your back to ‘eat up every bite of your delicious dinner’ … lucky were the girls who sat in the middle of each bench because they were close to the flower pot on each table, and able to quickly deposit a particularly nauseating mouthful under the leaves of the poor unsuspecting plant.NOTE: ALL TOM SIMPLE'S BOOKS ARE CURRENTLY BEING RE-RELEASED IN A NEWFORMAT, ILLUSTRATED BY 'THE POSER ARTIST''. Now, you shall not get up before I say so, and you will in neither way interfere with your punishment – or it will be a lot worse. Her husband was the primary spanker in their home as she just did not seem to be very effective with it. Our father was seriously hurt in his car one dreadful morning and only lived for three days after the accident, so this inevitably altered our whole way of life. In this one-and-a-half-minute film from 2014, we see a succession of schoolgirls caned on the hands by a male teacher in the classroom.

There had not been a single strapping from her dad’s belt that did not leave her in tears and she wondered how she was going to react to the paddling she was listening to at the moment.

These were stepped into, had short sleeves, buttons down the front and a ‘concealed’ opening at the back.