UK men - Did you get the cane at school?

To mark 20 years since it was abolished in state schools, did you get the cane when you were at school?

Yes I got the cane, sometimes I wonder if I got it so many times on purpose lol

Hurt like hell.

Same as the ruler across the knuckles did.

I experienced Corporal Punishment.

I feel thet better for the fact that I did (not sexually, just respectfully).

I'm too young. But I got a punishment worse than the cane - getting lectured by my relatives about how they got the cane.

Corporal punishment has the potential to be abused, and perhaps its abolition was inevitable. That said corporal punishment should be different from beating kids. I think there is a time when it is the appropriate punishment, and far kinder and more effective than the alternatives. I think Britain has caused a lot of problems by getting rid of it in schools. As far as I know it is now absent from public (private) schools as well as state schools, though I think there must be different rules in Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

A few years ago in Cardiff a school discovered that a group of 14/15 year old boys had created a website of porn photos with the faces of their teachers photo-shopped in. Apparently they had done this in class time and using school equipment, so I would have thought there were issues for the school about the level of supervision. Be that as it may the school decided to call in the police, who then saw all the parents, and the story made the national press. The kids were suspended for some days. All told this was a pretty ghastly result for these kids.

My school would have caned them and that would have been an end of the matter. I suggest that this is an occasion when corporal punishment is the best system.

Since i didnt grow up in the UK,i didnt get the cane,but i did get slapped by teachers in elementary school.The cane must have been painful,but also a useful punishment,especially for children that were incouragable.

UK men - would you like to get the cane now??

Bend over!!

Yes please Denise!!!!

I don't need asking twice to get "corporal" lol

I had a gym teacher who used to paddle us with a paddle if we did something wrong. He seemed nice, but maybe he was a perv.

Thought I would *bump* this for the new shift!

I grew up in Scotland where the cane wasn't very common. Instead they used a tawse - an 18-inch leather strap.
One of my teachers used it on me when I was five for opening my eyes during morning prayers. Commenting on the fact that she must have had her eyes open to have seen me earned me another six whacks. I got another six every morning for the rest of the week to make sure I didn't do it again. Odd how some memories stay with you, isn't it?

Thanks, viking, I was just about to post and ask if anyone had experienced the tawse!!! Did you receive it on the palm?

My partner's "name" is Tawse, he collects tawses, has several lovely Campbells, and is looking for an original Lochgelly.

We usually got the tawse on the palm. I don't remember being hit anywhere else myself, but I remember other kids getting it on the backs of their legs.

Our PE teacher used an old plimsol - usually on the backs of the legs.

I can't remember when corporal punishment stopped in primary schools, but it was still in use in secondary schools in 1987. I remember a couple of guys in my history class being belted when I was 15. The teacher didn't hold back and had them both crying by the time he'd finished. Once, when he couldn't find his tawse, he used a blackboard ruler instead and broke it across this guy's back. If he'd dealt out that punishment to an adult, he'd have ended up in court, but since they were kids, it was fine. He was a brutal bastard. He never belted the girls though. They were always sent to the rector's office, where he or his deputy did the belting in private, as it wasn't the done thing to make girls cry in front of a class.