do you remember ever being caned at school or getting slippered
i did many a time in front of all the school
what did you get caned for :hihi:

I got slippered at about 7 yrs old for cutting up some display paper :(

I got caned once on each hand for forgettting to go to school one day, more commonly known as waggin it!! Although to be fair we did choose to spend the day furthering our thirst for knowledge in the City library. Happy days!

I used to get the stick every day because as soon as there was any writing to do with those old steel pens my page would look as if a spider had walked on it.Come here boy,Whack Whack. I hated school.

I played truant with the kid next door I think one of the snotty 'teachers pet' happened to say" They live next door to each other".
This was at Colley School 1950/1, we spent the day in Grenner Woods
Mr Birch had us in his office with Mr Shaw in attendance and gave us 6 of the best on the palm.
When I was questioned I said i did not know the neighbour was also off school, to which Mr Birch looked at Mr Shaw and said "Have you ever seen pigs fly?".All this without even checking with the parents to see if it was a genuine absence.
I have no complaints

i hade the cane,for blowing a rassberry when the teacher bent over,and our whole class got it one day,we were told to write about our school,what we liked and disliked,we did,the teachers didnt like the end result so we all got the stick

ive also had the slipper,the board cleaner thrown at me and dozens of bits of chalk :hihi:

one woman teacher was so evil she would take your hand and thump the back of it against the corner of the desk,this caused my cousin to call her an evil bag,so she made her put soap in her mouth,the day after the same teacher was made to eat the full block of lifeboy by my auntie mable

the teachers were very cruel to the kids,one used acid to remove girls nail varnish,the same one walked around with a cane up his sleeve and would lash you with it for any reason he could think of,other teachers used to borrow fags of the kids and pay them back at the end of the month,then cane them for having fags on them :loopy:

Yes, got caned for wagging it all afternoon with some other kids. I was so proud, being a girl, and showed my red marks off to the other kids.:D

"Six of the Best" was quite common in the 40's and 50's at Shiregreen School...When you took your punishment you had to keep yourself from showing any kind of pain..the slightest detection of a tear and you were doomed...You would be regarded by your classmates as a "Sissy" ..And as you returned to your desk they would make remarks such as "Look He's Roorin" and laugh at you.....After a good caning you couldn't hold a pen for a least 30 min's and the whelts stayed till the next day.

You can still get the cane a Le Chambre and other establishments in the Attercliffe area.

Regarding having chalk thrown at you, I have never heard of that but, as they say, "whatever turns you on"

I remembered being caned by a teacher at Hillsborough County school about 1953.

He gave me six strokes and badly bruised all my fingers so that I couldn't hold a pen which defeated the object of education and showed what kind of a sadist he was.

It's a miracle my father didn't throttle him.

Unhappy Days!

i wasnt caned but ive been slippered and had board rubbers chucked at me :D

I was caned and slippered more times than I care to remember.
The teachers started to worry when I started to enjoy it though and when I started wearing French Knickers for my canings they became more than mildly concerned...

Like most lads in my class I had the cane for some misdemeanour or other. If
you drew your hand away and he missed ,he would catch the back of your hand on the way back up,and that was an extra, Our woodwork teacher was a Scot,and his favourite weapon was a strap. He would make sure the strap would reach up to your wrist,very painful. One teacher would call you out to the front and then strike the lamp shade with his cane and say "Seconds out"before laying it on your hand. All part of being a shcoolboy in my day.

i got slippered at st stephens school for dis-respecting mrs briggs :o
i was copying everything she said for a dare didnt do it again ever not for 10 refresher chews :hihi::hihi::hihi:

In junior school I was hit with board rubbers,slippers, rounders bats & a stool ball bat. I also was slapped, had my hair pulled & was thumped in the middle of my back...mostly for getting work wrong, & slight misdemeanors, such as running in the corridor or forgetting my games kit.

Life was much simpler in secondary school....They only hit us with canes:D

I still think now that the poorer the teacher the more they hit you !

Teacher at Gleadless Middle school in the 70s was well known for chucking board rubbers at lads sat on the back bench. he was the one who gave the slipper & smacked on hand with 12" wooden ruler.

The sad thing is now kids get caned everyday at school, but not the wooden stick kind.

If punishments like this were still allowed then there might be a bit more discipline installed into the youth of today, and maybe gun/knife crime would not be as high as it is.

Because seriously did being caned turn us all into the monsters that we have on our streets today???? i think not

I was caned in front of the whole school at assembly, amongst several others, for ditching our homework. Discrimination crept in even in those years (middle 50's) as the girl offenders were given a verbal warning. The school was Owler Lane and the "Caner" was Albert Lupton, an ex Royal Marine PTI. Any forumers remember him??

Funny you should say that about discrimination Jossman. I can't remember a single instance where a girl got assaulted by the teachers.

My school was Norton County (now Mundella), & the chief sadist was a Mr Morris, who was ex army...what a surprise !!!

We lads who got caned on a daily basis had a secret substance that we rubbed into our hands..it was found dumped on Winkobank Tip..We called it "Canebreak"..it actually was "Mica" that was used for Electrical insulation... It made your hands sparkle.....But we believed it had magical powers...we used to misbehave in class so we could test it out.

i got the slipper in't juniors for being pushed out of dinner queue by david concannon,the head master mr williamson did this,then i got cane in't seniors from mr cooke the metalwork teacher for not paying attention.what i do remember is a teacher we used to call deadly headly he was famed for administering punishment with his board ruler that was cracked one end, i was lucky enough not to sample this tho.

I was never caned myself, but I remember an occassion when one of my friends was being particularly cheeky to the teacher and was caned for it.

He met us after school and showed us the mark - a deep red, long swollen blister at the top of his leg. The poor kid was in shock. He wasn't crying, but you could see how deeply it had affected him. He just kept pulling his trousers down to look at it and looking back at us in horror. No kid deserves that.

We lads who got caned on a daily basis had a secret substance that we rubbed into our hands..it was found dumped on Winkobank Tip..We called it "Canebreak"..it actually was "Mica" that was used for Electrical insulation... It made your hands sparkle.....But we believed it had magical powers...we used to misbehave in class so we could test it out.

S'funny how caning had it's own myths. I remember stories of "He's got a split cane that splinters and rips your hands". Another one was the cane being wrapped around with black tape on the end bit, supposedly to give a heavier thwack. The one reality was the bruising to the fingers and the retort from Dad, you deserved it!! Nowadays the parents would be suing for ABH. How times change.

I was caned in Junior school...for moving in the playground after the whilstle was blown. We were supposed to stand still.

Was slippered regularly at Grammar School by the maths teacher who thought it a joke to to pick on me all the time. (the other kids would encourage him)

Although he was well out of order, and it wouldn't happen today, I still believe banishing corporal punishment was a big mistake.
You knew bloody well that if you did ow't wrong the stick was waiting for you.

Oh...and another one when you got home if mi Dad found out.

I got caned 1 on each hand for spitting in the school play ground, lesson taught, never spat since, and no mental scars.

I dont think they canned at Fullwood or Greystones either that or I was a real good kid,maybe they just felt sorry for the homes kids?

Ah! Mr. Pool at Derbyshire Lane School used to cane me on a regular basis simply because I refused to attend assembly with the religious indoctranation they spouted. One of the teachers, Helliwell by name caned me and broke two fingers he then strapped two pencil stubs to them in an attempt to reset them. I have no doubt that I deserved a lot of the caning but some of the teachers were just sadistic twits.

I helped a dinner lady with a weak voice. She could not get the children to be quiet. "Can I have a go to tell them ?" "Oh yes please do my throat hurts from shouting" So I did.
"BE QUIET!!" I yelled and it went quiet. She said thanks and that was that I thought. WRONG!!!! ...at afternoon registration the headmaster came into our form room and said that I had been reported for shouting in the dinner room by the SAME dinnerlady I had assisted; and to add injury to insult slippered me in front of the whole class!!!!!!!..............still grates me today....grrrr!

do you remember ever being caned at school or getting slippered
i did many a time in front of all the school
what did you get caned for :hihi:
Hahaha you must have been a bad boy lol

3 or 4 of us got caned by a teacher called Mr. Popple at Chaucer in the 1950s. Our crime was that we spent our tram money on sweets and arrived at school late so Popple told us we had to write an essay named...MANNERS MAKETH MAN, needless to say we had not got a clue what he meant so we got the cane each morning and then one of the lads father came and verbally abused the teacher so we were let off. Used to get cane for smoking too.

Teacher at Gleadless Middle school in the 70s was well known for chucking board rubbers at lads sat on the back bench. he was the one who gave the slipper & smacked on hand with 12" wooden ruler.
i remember that teacher myself cant remember his name though:loopy:
was it him that was caught in the stock cupbord with that lass.:suspect:
the games teacher used a cricket bat :wow:

Getting caned was very painfull, but people pay big money for that now-a-days .:)

i got caned for having a snowball fight with some workman!!
i was only about 10 and we were having a right laugh, the workmen tried sticking up for us but no one listned to them.
firshill school - cane-ee was steve woodcock.

Yes, got caned for wagging it all afternoon with some other kids. I was so proud, being a girl, and showed my red marks off to the other kids.:D

Wow! - I bet the lads enjoyed that - I'm assuming you were caned on your derrière :love:

I got three each hand, I guess that's six of the best, as they used to say, for smacking a kid called Sammy Clark, on his node and breaking his glasses. Node is not a spelling mistake, thats what it sounded like when he was moaning about it afterwards.
At Pye Bank, by my mate Spieght.

I had six strokes ( more like wacks) of the cane on the rear end when I was at Firth Park Grammar School in 1944. Can't remember why , I do know when I showed my Mam the marks she was very sympathetic and applied some easing balm. Mam did say whatever I had done, don't do it again.

I went to Southey Green Secondary School in the 50's & was caned often, this particular time I'd been scratching my back with a ruler, which 'obviously' was an excuse to give me a good caning, the teacher actually dislocated my middle fingers & I was in agony for weeks, I never complained about it & to this day I still get pains in my right hand when it's cold.
Thinking about it now, I was always being caned for trivial things.

Eeee!!!..... We WERE tough in those days. :hihi:

The Headmaster, at one of the schools I went to, used to stand at the door with his watch in one hand and a big strap in the other - if you were even a second late you got the strap. One lad , who used to be late regularly came up with a plan. There was a phone box at the end of the road so he would ring up the head master then put the phone down and dash for the door whilst the Head was gone to answer his call, He went to the well once too often and the Headmaster ( and his strap ) were waiting for him behind the door. Didn't get any credit for ingenuity !!

Jordanthorpe, mid-60's.
Our history teacher - Mr.Haythorn? - opened his desk one day to find that one of the pupils had spilt ink all over his books inside his desk.
He gave the class 24 hours to find out who the culprit was and 'hand him over' or the entire class would get the cane.
We didn't, and he did!
At least one on each hand (can't remember exactly) for circa 30 of us - must've taken some time!
I can still remember the instructions though - hand out level, keep your thumb down and out of the way (or would probably get broken) and don't pull away.
Still have my suspicions about a culprit - come on, Ray Ashcroft!
It's time to come clean!

I was strapped twice on both my palms with a thick leather strap.

This happened on the first day of high school by a Geography teacher called Mr Kleindings of Halifax Catholic High School (now St Catherine's Catholic High) back in the early 80's

He claimed that I'd laughed. I hadn't, and I strongly believe that he was solely making an example of me, as not a single pupil messed about in his lessons from that day forward.

There were many teachers whom took great pleasure in inflicting pain on their pupils but Kleindings was one of the worst. Just as abusive was Mad Jack Milner and Sister Maria.

njo

I was strapped twice on both my palms with a thick leather strap.

This happened on the first day of high school by a Geography teacher called Mr Kleindings of Halifax Catholic High School (now St Catherine's Catholic High) back in the early 80's

He claimed that I'd laughed. I hadn't, and I strongly believe that he was solely making an example of me, as not a single pupil messed about in his lessons from that day forward.

There were many teachers whom took great pleasure in inflicting pain on their pupils but Kleindings was one of the worst. Just as abusive was Mad Jack Milner and Sister Maria.

njo

A Catholic school into brutalising children?!
Unthinkable!

I was slippered by the sadist who was our history teacher at prep school. I have completely forgotten what for, and am not sure I even knew at the time, it was probably just my turn.
The man used to carry around a size 13 plimsole sole (with no upper) in his briefcase. This he would beat boys with regularly, not stopping at 6 (or even sometimes 12) of the best, but continuing to thrash the child until he was howling uncontrollably.
More than 30 years later I still have no respect for the man or his methods.

caned? i got dragged up the yard with my hair as head thought i had been waggin school:gag:

A boy I know got the slipper on his VERY FIRST day at Nether Green school for having his hands in his pockets.He was only 5 or 6.Scandalous.Shame on u Mr Courage.:(

I have only been punished by teachers on three occasions
First time in the infants at Pye Bank School,maybe 6 or 7 yr old, a ruler accross my hands,(thankyou Mrs Hancock).
Second time in my first year at Chaucer School about 1968, a slipper across my backside,(thanks to PE teacher Mr Pearson),
and in the same year the good old cane, one stroke only on each hand,(thankyou Mr.Plant head teacher) I seem to recall that a Matthew Holmes and Robert England got the cane with me that day.
For kids today who wonder what its like to get the cane, watch the expression of hurt on the face of the kid Billy Casper in the film Kes.

I was slippered, cuffed, had various objects such as chalk bounce off my cranium, and a ruler across the back of my hand, during my time at Gleadless County and at King Ted's. I certainly don't resent any of it - if I hadn't misbehaved I wouldn't have been punished.
Oddly enough I was never actually caned. Uncle Norman, the music master at King ted's, did take me outside the classroom to cane me once, but in fact he administered three stokes to the door handle instead of to me. He was a kindly fellow, from Ranmoor I think - at least my parents told me that he played the organ at a church in Ranmoor. I can't remember his surname.

I was slippered, cuffed, had various objects such as chalk bounce off my cranium, and a ruler across the back of my hand, during my time at Gleadless County and at King Ted's. I certainly don't resent any of it - if I hadn't misbehaved I wouldn't have been punished.
Oddly enough I was never actually caned. Uncle Norman, the music master at King ted's, did take me outside the classroom to cane me once, but in fact he administered three stokes to the door handle instead of to me. He was a kindly fellow, from Ranmoor I think - at least my parents told me that he played the organ at a church in Ranmoor. I can't remember his surname. It was Barnes,he tried to teach me....:D

I've just remembered another occasion when I got caned - in the early 60's, I attended quite a famous, and very old fashioned, school in Belfast.
Established in the year dot, it was one of those schools where the masters still wore gowns and 'boards, you were taught Latin as a matter of course, and the school assembly hall featured wooden plaques honouring ex-pupils who had lost their lives in WW1, The Boer and Crimean conflicts, etc., etc.
To give you a taster, (and bear in mind that this was just into the 60's) you were supposed to wear your school uniform - black blazer and trousers, school tie, quartered yellow and black cap - at any time you were in the city, whether you be at school or not that day.
From memory, the school week also included Saturday mornings until noon.
On one occasion I lost my school cap, and after searching high-and-low for it, was forced to go to school without it.....and I got three cane strokes on each hand for the misdemeanor and 'bringing the school into disrepute'.
I'd only have been 11/12 at the time, and yes, I had taken a letter from my mum explaining matters!

I got four from Mr Ruding at King Teds for going into the girls playground after being warned about it once before (only to retrieve our football, nothing else!). After that I avoided Mr Firth at the upper school at all costs - and I NEVER went in the girls playground again - ever! So it worked.

But in 1970 I lived in South Africa, Jo'burg, (Northview High School) and I once got the "Flaps" (a piece of sculptured tyre tread) for forgetting to bring my technical drawing instruments to class. Now that was bloody painful, I'll never forget it. And today, I'd like to meet the ...person.. who did it.

When I was 8, the boy next to me in class was sent out of the room to be punished by someone other than the teacher. After a few minutes he came back and sat next to me, biting his lip and fighting back the tears. The fingers on one hand were badly bruised, swollen and bleeding. Had I known then what I know now, I would have pointed out this abuse to the teacher. The poor lad in question lost both parents in WW2 and lived with his grandparents. The image of this perverted brutality has remained with me for the last 56 years. The person responsible for administering the punishment carried on till reaching retirement age. How many more kids were abused, I shall never know.

"Six of the Best" was quite common in the 40's and 50's at Shiregreen School...When you took your punishment you had to keep yourself from showing any kind of pain..the slightest detection of a tear and you were doomed...You would be regarded by your classmates as a "Sissy" ..And as you returned to your desk they would make remarks such as "Look He's Roorin" and laugh at you.....After a good caning you couldn't hold a pen for a least 30 min's and the whelts stayed till the next day.
yea it was pop bennet what dished it out

i regularly got caned at school. Well on the field to be exact with a nice bag of skunk

I remember the slipper being used every day by Mr White at Hartley Brook Juniors.

My mum went to this school in 40s and told me that six rulers on the knuckles were often used then. Apparently A teacher use to watch on a salad day and make sure everyone ate the lettuce at lunch time and sometimes it had bugs in it, they use to sneak the lettuce in to a hankerchief when she wasnt looking but god help the person who got caught.

I was caned in front of the whole school at assembly, amongst several others, for ditching our homework. Discrimination crept in even in those years (middle 50's) as the girl offenders were given a verbal warning. The school was Owler Lane and the "Caner" was Albert Lupton, an ex Royal Marine PTI. Any forumers remember him??
lupto...didn,t he go to southey from there???

mr pearson...he was there when i was,72 i started,only ever saw him slipper 1 lad, ian driver,loved it cos he was a bully,found it hard not to laugh as he cried his eyes out.

i remember craig hepworth and me getting caned for spitting out of a classroom window on susan orr and her mate,chaucer,72. peg leg wraggy caned us in the corridor in front of everyone,susan orr came looking for me at break crying and apologising

lupton...didn,t he go to southey from there???

do you remember ever being caned at school or getting slippered


Every week without fail.
But I did go to the Wybourn

A Catholic school into brutalising children?!
Unthinkable!

why do you think catholic boys have high voices???

Carfield Sec. Mod. There was only one teacher who caned me, he was the deputy head. Mr Roach was his name. Thank goodness I was put into the annexe at Annes Rd school.

The sad thing is now kids get caned everyday at school, but not the wooden stick kind.

If punishments like this were still allowed then there might be a bit more discipline installed into the youth of today, and maybe gun/knife crime would not be as high as it is.

Because seriously did being caned turn us all into the monsters that we have on our streets today???? i think not

the cane was wrapped in sellotape yes it hurt size 10 slipper yes it hurt chalk board rubber too so did the ruler on bare legs wish my kids could have had some

did craig live on crowder

At our school we all got the cat 'o' nine tails every day just for being well behaved, 100 lashes in the playground, and then salt was rubbed into the wounds. We loved every minute of it!

In the first lesson, on the first day at secondary school (Frecheville) another lad and I were caned for misbehaving. Our misdemeanour was "fencing" with rulers. The teacher was Mr Lancaster and we were no doubt the example of what would happen if you stepped out of line. If it hadn't been us then someone else would've copped it!
It was a very democratic regime, however, because one teacher (Mr Sharp, I think) let you choose between a fat, short cane or a long thin one. At that point all your physics revision came to mind - force, acceleration, area, pressure etc.
From that point onwards I can only remember being caned once more and that was a case of innocently being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The school was "ruled by the rod " with each member of staff having his or her own method of imposing discipline. I once even saw a teacher throw a pitch fork at a pupil during a gardening lesson. (That was one of the more academic subjects covered!) It landed at his feet and vibrated like a spear in a scene from Zulu. Don't know they're born nowadays , do they?

I got slapped on the leg at Herdings Infants School by Mrs Crump (early 70s). Can't remember what I did to deserve it but it was the closest I ever came to being caned/slippered.

Miss Hornsey of Greystones Sec Mod caned me for forgetting the book White Fang by Jack London. The title is imprinted on my mind 50 years later!!!

Got two strokes on my backside from a sadistic history teacher at King Ted's in 1963. They were hardly deserved but it was worth it for the fame - even though he was a bullying old so-and-so.

I got slapped on the leg at Herdings Infants School by Mrs Crump (early 70s). Can't remember what I did to deserve it but it was the closest I ever came to being caned/slippered.

I got slapped on the back of the legs too(brunswick junior) All i did was step out of line :o It was Mrs Metcalf, never forget it .

Four of us got the whack from Oggy Gennett in Division Room 1 at Ecclesfield comp. It was on the backside and wasn't a big issue. The Geography teacher was gloating when I entered my class, he couldn't wait to say "sit down lad". We had got lippy with an old bat who accused us of chucking crisps bags on her lawn.
Later a sign went up on the door of Division Room 1 which read "Adolf Hitler is alive and well and lives in Division Room 1".
A few months later I got it again on the palms of my hands for sod all. That hurt. Years later I bumped into Gennett at Hillsboro', he was chairman of English Schools FA and he said "Hello" and I'm afraid to say I told him to something off.

I got slippered by Mrs Dodsworth at Rainbow Forge, with a size 10 plimpsole at age 9 for god knows what. A caning at Carter Lodge for Smoking. Another for using the blackboard as a dart board. I think it was the fact that we used the big blackboard compass as the dart, it was at least three feet long when unfolded.

But the punishments at school pale into insignificance compared to the ones I got off me mam!! :hihi:

When I was at school in the 30s, you got caned for nothing. However many a male bully of a teacher got black eyes from irate steel working fathers. I loved that, cos in the end the teacher daren't touch me. " just wait till me Dad sees what you did "

I seem to remember being caned on a daily basis - going to school in the
1950's and very early 60's ( left school in 1961 ) it wasn't uncommon. Whilst it did me no harm it didn't do me much good either.

got caned nearly every day at school i was one of the bad ones n by ek it did hurt but still kept going bac 4 more

I was also caned every day........

wat school did u go 2

I am going to be odd one out here I think. I was at school from 1952 to 1963 and I never saw anyone beaten with a cane or anything else.
I went to Cecil Rd (St Barnabas) junior school, then Grange Grammar in Sheffield and Lady Manners in Bakewell.
Lady Manners would be the one most likely to use the cane but as far as I am aware it never was.

Our woodwork teacher used to cane us with a length of ½" dowelling :gag: Nasty b*****d he was.

I got caned on a regular basis at Burngreave.So did most of us that were active.If you know what I mean.:hihi:

I got the cane a few times the first was in my first week at senior school two strokes for coat in wrong place in the cloakroom. (I think the head had problems with my family from years previous so I got what they missed).
The last was for playing darts into a door with wood chisels, fair cop I did nearly get the teacher in the head. happy days I think!!!!

any one who went to woodthorpe school in the early 1960's will remember Mr Sallis,a very small man that liked to strut around as if he was seven feet tall,he was an out an out bully, whereas MrCartright who was an ex army boxer was a great bloke,MrCliff the science teacher was another bully who got his come uppance in 1965 when our year finally left school

At Firth Park Grammar in 1944, six across the backside, can't remember what for.

At Woodbourne Road Juniors in 1967/68 I got the table tennis bat on the palm of my left hand 6 times in the privacy of the headmaster's office for being caught sneaking down the teacher's stairs passed their staffroom. Girls got the table tennis bat and boys got the slipper.

For the girls at Waltheof Comprehensiveit was the ruler on the hand.

I had the cane a few times.
In french lessons at sec mod (yes a catholic school) one teacher would cane practically the whole class, this was supposedly for not recalling last weeks learning, I now realise it was just to fill his time and save him planning a real learning experience.

Once at junior school, an old second world war army hut affair, the whole school (almost all the boys) were caned in the playground assembly by the head and his deputy. We had to admit who went on the golf course to repel another school who had crossed the links to taunt us as they had been given the day off so their school could be used for voting in some election. They through bricks, sticks and other stuff into our school. Most of the boys ran out to fight them and chase them off. It was like a minor war in those days, ours was a catholic and theirs was a non catholic school.
When we moved to the new school on the other side of the golf links (Netherton near Bootle) my maths teacher was Tom O' Connor he gave my brother the slipper a few times.

Tapton School '76/77 ish. Receiver of cane by Mr May, Mr Vickers and Mr Pidd. It's going on my epitaph :P

Never had the cane before but when i was at school it was always the same kids that got it, all as stupid as f@@k and thought it was 'hard' when they were caned, bet they are still stupid as adults

Could be true Longy,but can't ever remember looking forward to it.
I can remember it suddenly dawning on me when I was 12 I hadn't been caned that week and being mildly surprised....

I spent half my school days caned if that counts.

At King Ted's 3 times. Once from Jackson for reading a "Superman" comic when they'd been banned, once from Sharrock for doing a timetable in his Maths lesson, once from Elvis Vernon for "borrowing" 5 periodic tables from mates instead of copying mine 5 times.
2, 3, 5 strokes respectively all on the bum. ouch

Strangely enough, never got it from Charlie Baker, even though he was our form master and took absolute delight in caning as many boys as possible.

I got caned for been disruptive in class by the head teacher Mr Tingle (great name for a caner) at Ashleigh. I remember reaching over the desk and he lectured and strutted about the office flexing the cane etc.
He took a good few steps back took a run up, I braced thinking this is gonna be sore to receive the most delicate touch, after all the posturing I thought I was done for but a pleasant surprise I could still sit down comforably.
I also got the slipper on another occasion and that did hurt, those rippled soles fair left a mark on ya ass

I once got caned across the hand for answering someone in class when they asked me the time - wow it hurt!!!

i was at school wen the cane was banned but if a teacher had try to hit me with a cane they would av got it back

Jossman,
Joe cetainly layed the cane on from a great height, I FELT IT QUITE A FEW TIME IN THE FIVE YEARS I WAS THERE. Even worse was on a very cold day when the heating had failed half a dozen 5th formers doing private study in room 7, lit a bunson burner and sat round the bench heads down writing, when joe spotted us over the painted window. He came in asked who'd lit the bunson and because no one admitted it, all of us got 6 on the backside with his size 12 running shoes. non of sat down for the rest of the day.

My friend Len F and I asked for permission to go and see Yorkshire play Australia at The Lane, Permission refused. Of course we went. After recieving 5 on each hand the headmaster said. Now lads sit down and tell me about the best batsmen in the world. We did and no hard feelings. There was no way we were missing out on Len Hutton and Don Bradman. Worth every stroke and yes it hurt. I've referred to this on another thread

For the girls at Waltheof Comprehensiveit was the ruler on the hand.Seems like the punishment gave you a grammer impediment

Yes those were the days......pre-nanny Britain.
You got the slipper or the cane for wrong doing.......
The heating went off in winter, then you sat with your coats on.
Our English teacher was a dab hand with the board rubber..... now that did hurt when it whacked you around the head...ususally for talking in class.
Can I share with you a story about the late great Brian Glover.
He was one of the PE teachers at Edward Sheerian secondary school in Barnsley.
You fell foul of him or his sidekick Trevor Booth then you were taken around the bike sheds and shown in true Barnsley fashion what misbehaving was all about. Yes you got a damned good hiding.
I recall Brian who had said to him by one Athersley big hitter "Ill fetch me father ta thee sunshine"
Bran retorted "Tha can fetch thee father and all thee uncles"
At four o'clock father and four uncles turned up to sort out Brian Glover.
Approx 10 minutes later an ambulance was called to Edward Sheerian to take away five very bruised and battered relatives of unruly pupil.
What action was taken against Brian Glover.....zilch.......he was however given a good deal of praise from the local police for "sorting out a very bad family"
Stories like this really do make you long for the good old days of English justice.

Seems like the punishment gave you a grammer impediment



I think it's "Grammar"

Sorry you are so correct it is "grammar"

Igot caned by a teacher at norfolk school in 1973 for cheeking the dinner lady and refusing to go out in the pouring rain. the teacher who did it was my aunties neighbour too.

when Iwas at longley school in the fourties/fifties Miss chappel the head teacher she would cane me and i would scream but she never won I was still a bad lad.The teachers at shirecliffe played the same game,they also lost Mrs Brennan used to slipper me and my mate Terry every day,I think thats how she got her jollies.I once got six of the best from Arther Siddall for taking the new putty out of the windows and sticking it on kids heads,you have never seen as many kids with bald patches,and to top it all he caned me on the stage in front of the whole school,by ,did my street cred go up!!!

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My dad tells some great stories about the antics he and some of the lads he went to school with got upto at Wisewood School. They were always in trouble in one form or another and got caned on a regular basis.

One of the best he told me, was him and four others got 6 of the best in front of the whole school in assembly for pouring ink out of the library window onto a teachers car, what made it worse it had been raining and the whole car went blue.

He made me laugh when he says they allways ran to find something cold to put thier hands in to stop the sting if water wasnt available they used the cold windows.

The teachers name was Haydock, so anyone at wisewood at that time should remember it.

Fortunately I never got caned at school they had outlawed it by then.I do remember tales of Mr Hall from owler lane high school but he had long gone when I was there.

i was caned in school once for talking in class . the teacher marched me down to the heads office for six of the best.

i never ever talked in class again

why the cane was ever taken away is beyond me -it taught kids a good lesson if they misbehaved .

Sounds like child abuse to me! Obviously I am, thankfully, too young to have endured anything like this...but, I did, once, get LOCKED in a store room at the back of the class for an hour...for talking during the maths lesson. Can you imagine, if there had been a fire?

The cane should definitely be brought back - it may not work for all, but will deter many, as well as being a short, sharp shock for those that do get it - and it isnt cruel, and doesnt last too long physically.
Also, Let parents punish their own children as they wish behind closed doors (spank) - it is neither anybody elses business or governments job to interefere.

I got slippered for throwing a snowball at someone not expecting it, as they were facing the other way. Didn't think it hurt very much, I was expecting a much heftier wack. That was at Firth Park school about 1975

In the 40's at Greystones Inter. we had some odd puddings at lunch. One was prunes followed by horrid pink semolina. After the prunes while waiting for the semolina we were hitting the prunestones wth the spoon which shot across to whoever was sat opposite. We were dragged out by the head, Rough Reeman & given 6 of the best. On returning to our seats the lad opposite who was very small & thin went white as a sheet & fainted face down into his semolina. Rough Reeman then clouted me around the head as though it was my fault! We also had a pop eyed maths teacher with bottle bottom glasses who caned a lad so hard he couldnt stop crying. He took him outside, gave him half a crown & sent him home. Happy days.

i was caned in school once for talking in class . the teacher marched me down to the heads office for six of the best.

i never ever talked in class again

why the cane was ever taken away is beyond me -it taught kids a good lesson if they misbehaved .

i must agree with the above coment. i was caned a few times at school but i was never caned twice for the same thing.

At Marlcliffe in the mid 50's,Pop Reylolds used to cane the boys.The other teachers had various methods of punishment.Ron Harrington[woodwork] had a large slipper,others had half metre rulers.It did me no harm.Bring it back

Yes I got caned by Mr Beeson at Woodhouse West Junior for rolling the pencil he was giving out on the first day of term down the desk!! and Mr Thorpe bless him had a worrying gaite of spanking girls over his knee!!! Would we have questioned it then? You daren't tell your parents for fear of another wallop!

pm me to discuss this.

At All Saints Juniors kids often got the ruler across the back of the knees by Miss Sails. I got it for messy writing, and being left handed!! She said that being left handed made my writing messy and tried forcing me to use my other hand - til my mum paid her a visit. (the second in 2 weeks as it happens)
I also had chalk and the blackboard rubber thrown at the back of my head. They hit the back of my head because I was turning round talking to my mate behind me. Serves me right on those occasions. You could even get a clip from the local policeman in those days.
Even then, I do believe punishment should be harsher in schools. It didn't really do us any harm, and we have more respect for people and property than a lot of youths today. If parents won't correct their children, and schools are unable to, how will they ever learn that some behaviour is unacceptable?

I didn't get the cane being as I was a good boy (or never got caught, can't remember which now) but our lass talks about a maths teacher who used to throw the board rubber in her direction a fair bit. She doesn't grumble too much about it as she passed her maths o level after a year in his class having been told by another teacher she would be lucky to pass a CSE.

our p e teacher gave me the black jack, a long peice of thick rubber across both hands and it bloody hurt,deserved it though ,chucked a stone at my mate and cut his head open,silly boy.

we had a competition at school to see who could get the stick most
thats how much it botherd us our form teacher was charlie cooper
any body remember him any spelling mistakes blame him

I was caned in front of the whole school at assembly, amongst several others, for ditching our homework. Discrimination crept in even in those years (middle 50's) as the girl offenders were given a verbal warning. The school was Owler Lane and the "Caner" was Albert Lupton, an ex Royal Marine PTI. Any forumers remember him??

old man lupton.......he was also head at southey green,twice i believe,yeh,i remember him,looked a bit like bruce forsyth before brucie had his hair weave.

At Marlcliffe in the mid 50's,Pop Reylolds used to cane the boys.The other teachers had various methods of punishment.Ron Harrington[woodwork] had a large slipper,others had half metre rulers.It did me no harm.Bring it back

harrigton came to chaucer,he was so paranoid about being poisoned,he wouldn,t drink tea in the staff room,but would bring a flask.

did craig live on crowder

yes,crowder avenue.

Myself and two mates got three strokes each of the cane across our backsides whilst we were pupils at Hunters Bar.

Our crime? We'd walk a female classmate home right up to her door and her parents objected to us being on their property.

I remember one time at Jordanthorpe when everyone in the dinner queue, me included , was caned because there was more than ten people in the queue. About 30 of us got caned, but not the first ten. Happy days.

do you remember ever being caned at school or getting slippered
i did many a time in front of all the school
what did you get caned for :hihi:

I got the ruler, cane, or worse teacher,s hand,on your arm,for talking in class
& even laughing, you were scared of your teacher in those day,s kid,s dont
know thier, born today.

Yes I got caned by Mr Beeson at Woodhouse West Junior for rolling the pencil he was giving out on the first day of term down the desk!! and Mr Thorpe bless him had a worrying gaite of spanking girls over his knee!!! Would we have questioned it then? You daren't tell your parents for fear of another wallop!

Don't remember Mr Thorpe doing that, Linnet, but I'm sure I would have if I had been a girl. I only remember him as a very mild, friendly guy. But in those days, corporal punishment was the norm. Still, spanking girls over his knee?? Strikes me as being off limits even bk then.

I played truant with the kid next door I think one of the snotty 'teachers pet' happened to say" They live next door to each other".
This was at Colley School 1950/1, we spent the day in Grenner Woods
Mr Birch had us in his office with Mr Shaw in attendance and gave us 6 of the best on the palm.
When I was questioned I said i did not know the neighbour was also off school, to which Mr Birch looked at Mr Shaw and said "Have you ever seen pigs fly?".All this without even checking with the parents to see if it was a genuine absence.
I have no complaints

i got caned at olley for wagging it by mr birch i hated him

I have only been punished by teachers on three occasions
First time in the infants at Pye Bank School,maybe 6 or 7 yr old, a ruler accross my hands,(thankyou Mrs Hancock).
Second time in my first year at Chaucer School about 1968, a slipper across my backside,(thanks to PE teacher Mr Pearson),
and in the same year the good old cane, one stroke only on each hand,(thankyou Mr.Plant head teacher) I seem to recall that a Matthew Holmes and Robert England got the cane with me that day.
For kids today who wonder what its like to get the cane, watch the expression of hurt on the face of the kid Billy Casper in the film Kes.

yeah i remember copping it off mr pearson and also the cane off mr fleming sure he was a sadist

I went to a private school in South Africa as a child...at 7 yrs old we had our hands slapped with a ruler

I went to a private school in South Africa as a child...at 7 yrs old we had our hands slapped with a ruler

This was in the 80s

:mad: I was always getting cane used to have to stand in a line and wait for it that was at chaucer I once fell asleep when the head was taking class I got six whacks :gag:

Don't remember Mr Thorpe doing that, Linnet, but I'm sure I would have if I had been a girl. I only remember him as a very mild, friendly guy. But in those days, corporal punishment was the norm. Still, spanking girls over his knee?? Strikes me as being off limits even bk then.



Well sorry Rog but I am not blessed with an over imaginative memory believe me. As a teacher he was one of the best, we're talking 1950's here things were v different then as far as schooling was concerned. Probably at the time didn't think anything of it it is only as things have become more pc these days, can imagine these days what the outcry would be.

I got caned at King Teds when I was 13-three on the backside which was heavily padded with about six pairs of shorts.
The reason-I changed a radio programme from a German lesson that was being recorded by JET, the most useless teacher ever. I could have got away with it but I told my best mate what I had done and as a detention for the whole form after school was threatened I had to own up.
Lessons learned? Keep your gob shut if you do anything likely to bounce back at you! I was also vice form captain and I learned my lesson at that age of the need to set an example and be a role model. So John Terry has no sympathy from me.

Thanks for that Morts - made me laugh as I got castigated for saying I had been spanked - what year was this?

A sound thrashing was received about1966/67!

My God that was late - you poor old thing!

us lads got caned so often at burton st it didnt bother us what we hated was lines which had to be done at home in your own hand writing a pt teacher called hempstock who all the lads liked didnt like me at all and i spent nearly evry pt lesson outside in th freezing cold or boxing some lad three times bigger than me in pt class the lad dare not hold back on punches or we both got slipperd happy days

I have to say I was never caned because I was positively perfect in every way

Yea, got caned a few times by Mr Vickers for not being able to learn my Geography.. good teacher eh ? We girls got the wooden spoon across our knuckles for being late or any other little misdemeanour that irritated the teachers. Wouldn't say it did me any good at all.

I was at Carfield where caning was quite normal.
Mr. Vickers (Dobbin) being one of the best teachers but, was very handy wth the cane. The worst exponent for caning was Mr.Roach who caned for the sheer love of it, no genuine reason for carrying out his sadistic streak.
Sam Davison was a fairer judge for the use of the cane, he only used it as a genuine punishment/deterrent.
Miss. Howard who taught Domestic Science for the girls used one of her wooden spoons as her weapon, handy when you've got a whole drawer full of them!

I dont think they canned at Fullwood or Greystones either that or I was a real good kid,maybe they just felt sorry for the homes kids?

I wasn`t caned at Greystones Inter... but received a wack on the back of my head. It was around `56 and the male math teacher, whose name escapes me, had his foot caught in the heating pipe that ran around the room near the floor. We all laughed. He managed to retrieve his foot and continued class. I got the giggles and couldn`t stop. He stopped me alright with a wack. Have never forgotton the incident and wonder if anyone else remembers?

I spent half my school days caned if that counts.

Shouldn't that read 'cained'? ;)

Shouldn't that read 'cained'? ;)

No, 'caned' as in off one's t*ts is spelt exactly the same as 'caned' as in thrashed with a cane.

No, 'caned' as in off one's t*ts is spelt exactly the same as 'caned' as in thrashed with a cane.

Not according to this:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cained&defid=702879

.. had board rubbers chucked at me :D

Me too, one lamped me on the head, everyone laughed-I looked like a cross between a badger and Don King :cry:

I wasn`t caned at Greystones Inter... but received a wack on the back of my head. It was around `56 and the male math teacher, whose name escapes me, had his foot caught in the heating pipe that ran around the room near the floor. We all laughed. He managed to retrieve his foot and continued class. I got the giggles and couldn`t stop. He stopped me alright with a wack. Have never forgotton the incident and wonder if anyone else remembers?

Was it Mr.Pemberton?

still got a lot of fond memories of school if it wasnt fastened down teachers would throw it at you,first ever pupil strike ,blackboard jungle,great times wybourn

I got the slipper at Abbeydale Grange for forgetting my PE kit (back in the early 70's). The teacher didn't give me chance to explain I had only started that day (2 weeks later than everyone else).

Now who was that teacher ?????? oh yes! a certain Mr Howard Wilkinson. Now, anyone know where I could locate him to complain!!!

The cane and I met often during my later years at what was laughingly referred to as a school. If wielded by the headmaster it was of little consequence as his intake of gin rendered him as weak as a kitten, unfortunately the deputy head was built like a brick outhouse and was, I am sure, descended from the Marquis De Sade, so pain in copious quantitiy was inflicted. This was in the 50's,and I don't think it did me any good or any harm either. The great majority were for smoking, although wearing luminous orange socks also earned me a couple.

I used to get the stick every day because as soon as there was any writing to do with those old steel pens my page would look as if a spider had walked on it.Come here boy,Whack Whack. I hated school.I used to get caned a lot at Tinsley School. Sometimes an angry great steerlworker would bust in and give the male teacher a right dusting,much to the joy of the kids:):)

I got the slipper at Abbeydale Grange for forgetting my PE kit (back in the early 70's). The teacher didn't give me chance to explain I had only started that day (2 weeks later than everyone else).

Now who was that teacher ?????? oh yes! a certain Mr Howard Wilkinson. Now, anyone know where I could locate him to complain!!!

Try the Hillsborough board room!

"Christian" brothers at De La Salle Pitsmoor were a bunch of sadists.

Not just he cane,some would take off their belt and use that,brought tears to the eyes.

One civvy teacher,McSweeney,had a rigid plastic strap about 12in.x2in.that made your backside sting for the rest of the day.

And they said it was for my own good.

Hi Lysander, Yes, I think it was Pemberton.
Can`t bring myself to call him Mr.
Sounds like you witnessed the incident.

Punishments In School 1959-69.

I was on the receiving end of physical punishments at my schools, I was caned, slippered, hit at back of my head with flat hand and knuckles, pushed in the back, been shaken, and have had my ears twisted and boxed on many occasions but the worst was the psychological games some teachers played. The punishments were for offences like :- Being late, tripping people up, dropping water filled Johnnies onto people from first floor windows, smoking, whistling in corridors, backchat, firing inkpellets, use of peashooter, farting in class, putting drawing pins on chairs, deliberately slamming desk lid, hitting teacher with snowball, hand up girls skirt, eating in class, throwing food at dinner time, tying classroom door handle to cloakroom rack preventing anyone getting out , high falutin pranks and worst of all (and I still feel ashamed now 42 years later) cheering with three others to the announcement in assembly that a disliked teacher had died overnight. I also received detentions and lines as well. Strange as it may seem to you I was a good lad and didn't bully, fight, or thieve at school, I just didn't care much for authority and didn't like to see teachers who were nearly twice as tall as a child and 3 times the weight of a child beating them with a cane, it was like a daily dose of faschism. Most frustrating is when I got punished for something I hadn't done and only received the whack because of my reputation. Caning never stopped me challenging the classroom bullies, namely the teachers. Most of my teachers were nice persons and a sharp word was enough for me to behave. Years later when I became a parent I promised myself never to raise my hand to my offspring and I didn't let myself down. Beating is wrong because it can become a habit and then get out of hand as I noticed at school and at home from my mother! Below is a list of my schools and the sentences I received. (U)= undeserved and (D)= deserved, deserved means I was in the wrong but detention or lines would have sufficed most of the time.

Rainbow Forge Infants School = Zero Punishments

Birley Spa Junior School - 7
Mr Rawlings 2X slipper (D).
Mr Wilson 1X clout at back of head (D)
Mr Williams 3X leg slapping (U), 1X rounders bat (U), psycho terror, scared of him and my most hated teacher!

Carter Lodge Secondary School - 11
Mr Croft 2X cane (D).
Mr Rodgers 1X cane (D).
Mr Kirk 2X slapped legs (U), during P.E and 1X slipper (U) - third most hated teacher.
Mr 'Noddy' Fretwell 2X ruler on knuckles (U) and 3X knuckle on back of head (U).

Birley Secondary Modern School low estimate 24
Mr Matthews 1X plimsoll (D) and 1X table tennis bat (D) (left an interesting pattern).
Mr Knox 1X pulling of sideboards (D) downstairs, along corridor to headmasters office.
Mr Harry Lines - low est:- 20X cane -est. 12 (D), 8(U). Lines hated me for reasons that I won't go into, used psycho terror - my second most hated teacher. I refused to let him break me.

Hurlfield Comprehensive School 7
Mr Battams 1X slipper (D).
Mr Houdmont 3X cane (D).
Mr Turton 3X cane (D). My favourite teacher during my education.

These are the punishments I remember but there was more for sure.

CARE FOR YOUR CHILDREN, THEY ARE YOUR FLESH AND BLOOD!

do you remember ever being caned at school or getting slippered
i did many a time in front of all the school
what did you get caned for :hihi:

i went to springfield school 1943-53 the first time i was caned i was 8 years old that was for supposedly running back to class after playtime i ask you who would risk the cane running back to class, now running away from class yes, i think i did well reaching eight, one had the cane at five and his name in the head teachers little black book i'm not saying we were angels but ernest had it more than most in fact i remember him getting the cane from one teacher and the cane broke, the teacher sent ernest across the road to fetch a new one, it was a charlie chaplin type walking stick cane the shop stocked a bundle of them. the same teacher in the next year (we had him for two years on the trot)started giving us the slipper. i met him some thirty years after i left school and asked him about teaching and he said he'd stopped some 12 years before as the children had no respect and wanted to do what they wanted.the ernest i wrote about earlier when in the class of mrs taylor we were about 11years old at the time, she wanted to write our lesson on the blackboard, it was one of the swing over type, well while she was behind writing, ernest was asked to keep his eye's on the class, like ernest he started to make the class giggle and the teacher swung the board over hitting ernest on the top of his head cracking the blackboard, i saw that teacher throw anything ,her bunch of keys,board rubber, anything was fair game for her.

The only time I was ever caned at Nether Edge Grammar School was when I received four of the best for smoking in the schoolyard. This was more an affront to my dignity as I was 17 years of age. I might add that I have been a non-smoker for many years now - (1971) but that dose of capital punishment had no bearing on it.

Mike

I remember behaving myself and doing my best at everything because I was TERRIFIED of GETTING the cane.:hihi:

Smacked hands in infants----

slipper on backside in jnr--

lots of stick in seniors----

hands hard as steel -- bring it back.

Punishments In School 1959-69.

I was on the receiving end of physical punishments at my schools, I was caned, slippered, hit at back of my head with flat hand and knuckles, pushed in the back, been shaken, and have had my ears twisted and boxed on many occasions but the worst was the psychological games some teachers played. The punishments were for offences like :- Being late, tripping people up, dropping water filled Johnnies onto people from first floor windows, smoking, whistling in corridors, backchat, firing inkpellets, use of peashooter, farting in class, putting drawing pins on chairs, deliberately slamming desk lid, hitting teacher with snowball, hand up girls skirt, eating in class, throwing food at dinner time, tying classroom door handle to cloakroom rack preventing anyone getting out , high falutin pranks and worst of all (and I still feel ashamed now 42 years later) cheering with three others to the announcement in assembly that a disliked teacher had died overnight. I also received detentions and lines as well. Strange as it may seem to you I was a good lad and didn't bully, fight, or thieve at school, I just didn't care much for authority and didn't like to see teachers who were nearly twice as tall as a child and 3 times the weight of a child beating them with a cane, it was like a daily dose of faschism. Most frustrating is when I got punished for something I hadn't done and only received the whack because of my reputation. Caning never stopped me challenging the classroom bullies, namely the teachers. Most of my teachers were nice persons and a sharp word was enough for me to behave. Years later when I became a parent I promised myself never to raise my hand to my offspring and I didn't let myself down. Beating is wrong because it can become a habit and then get out of hand as I noticed at school and at home from my mother! Below is a list of my schools and the sentences I received. (U)= undeserved and (D)= deserved, deserved means I was in the wrong but detention or lines would have sufficed most of the time.

Rainbow Forge Infants School = Zero Punishments

Birley Spa Junior School - 7
Mr Rawlings 2X slipper (D).
Mr Wilson 1X clout at back of head (D)
Mr Williams 3X leg slapping (U), 1X rounders bat (U), psycho terror, scared of him and my most hated teacher!

Carter Lodge Secondary School - 11
Mr Croft 2X cane (D).
Mr Rodgers 1X cane (D).
Mr Kirk 2X slapped legs (U), during P.E and 1X slipper (U) - third most hated teacher.
Mr 'Noddy' Fretwell 2X ruler on knuckles (U) and 3X knuckle on back of head (U).

Birley Secondary Modern School low estimate 24
Mr Matthews 1X plimsoll (D) and 1X table tennis bat (D) (left an interesting pattern).
Mr Knox 1X pulling of sideboards (D) downstairs, along corridor to headmasters office.
Mr Harry Lines - low est:- 20X cane -est. 12 (D), 8(U). Lines hated me for reasons that I won't go into, used psycho terror - my second most hated teacher. I refused to let him break me.

Hurlfield Comprehensive School 7
Mr Battams 1X slipper (D).
Mr Houdmont 3X cane (D).
Mr Turton 3X cane (D). My favourite teacher during my education.

These are the punishments I remember but there was more for sure.

CARE FOR YOUR CHILDREN, THEY ARE YOUR FLESH AND BLOOD!

well put ZAKES, spot on.

Maltby Street School:
Yes I had the cane by the Headteacher Mr. Thompson. I had to get the can out of the cupboard and hand it to him. Then one stroke on each hand and then thank him for the pleasure!!

I remember a psychopath called Ivor Haythorne who was a teacher at Jordanthorpe School who used to cane pupils for going into dinner with grubby hands.

I wonder if you could claim against the school for assault? Corporal punishment should have been recorded?

sedith,
My guess is that you are a much younger person than me and grown up under a Blair/Brown government where suing people became the norm.

Years ago we just got on with it...............and guess what ? I deserved to have the cane. If we had it today we might not have all the problems we have today.

Me too, one lamped me on the head, everyone laughed-I looked like a cross between a badger and Don King :cry:

Sorry BF, But that has got me rolling! :hihi::hihi::hihi:

i had the board rubber thrown at me and the ruler across my nuckles for chatting we had to sit in lines of boy girl my freind and i were lent forward talking and we both got the ruler on the crack of our necks called him a name for doin it to never did it again.

Most of our class got caned at St Pats, didn't half hurt :( worst part was standing in line waiting for your turn, I think the teacher Mr..... got a kick out of it because after he would go behind the blackboard (the kind on wheels) and have a good scratch between his legs, he didn't think we could see him..thats the only part we could see :hihi:

kidorry only just found site I should think you were a friend of the famous MR SCOCROFT HE LOVED IS CANE AND NO EXCUSES ALLOWED 1947 To 51

Anyone remember the finger tip experts? Two spring to mind, both at Burngreave, a Mr King, and a Mr Gosney. The technique was to aim to catch just the tips of the fingers, not in the center or across the fingers. An added bonus for both these mofos was that if they missed they would rapidly bring the cane upward and get you across the knuckles.

I was at wybourn school the winter of 1955, snow on the ground, freezing cold, snotty nose, i dropped my hanky in assembly & i ran back along the line to get it then went back to my place ready to sing and the head pulled me out onto the stage and caned me twice for moving. Also at the same time we had a boy in the same class called brian b, that poor bugger was "it" when it came to getting the cane. I moved to whitby road girls later that year.

do you remember ever being caned at school or getting slippered
i did many a time in front of all the school
what did you get caned for :hihi:

I was on the recieving end of the Headmasters cane only once. It did the trick ,and i was never invited back for another thrashing .

When I was ten (1972, Kiveton Meadows) for back-handing a lad after he put ice down my back. The deputy headmaster only tickled me with the cane. But, the most embarrassing thing was being called out of class to receive punishment. A gross injustice at the time. But, I'm still in favour of beating naughty school kids to within an inch of their lives!

Unbelievably in this day and age, but I was caned for throwing a balaclava in the Lydgate Lane school changing rooms! I got 6 on my right hand from the head (Mr Peck).
The only other time I got the cane was at King Edward V11 school on Darwin Lane. This was for swearing at a girl in the playground who had just kicked me in the goolies! It was a certain Mr Ruding who did the dirty deed, though I still blame the girl personally and I do still remember her name...but I won't tell LOL.

I was at a mixed Grammar School in Belfast in the 1960s. I was caned quite a lot, probably because I deserved it. There was no distinction between boys and girls when it came to punishment although I think the teachers were not as strict with the girls as it was rarer for them to be caned or slippered. Once when I was 15 I was caught talking in assembly and was brought up onto the stage in front of the entire school. I was made to bend over and received two very hard slaps with a gym shoe over my trousers. Each stroke nearly knocked me over. I remember the excruciating pain which took my breath away, I never talked in assembly again. I think the slipper was worse than the cane.
On one occassion, our maths teacher left the class for about 5 minutes and we all became disruptive and noisy. Unfortunately for us, the headmaster was walking past and came into the classroom. When our teacher, Mrs McNeill returned he told her off as well. The entire class was then caned by him, girls as well. We all got three strokes of his cane across our bottom. The boys got it over their trousers and the girls on their navy knickers which were regulation at our school, with Mrs McNeill adjusting their skirts.
As skirts had become shorter in the 60s, the school carried out regular uniform checks. Although boys were never present, we knew that the girls were made to bend forward infront of the deputy head mistress to ensure that their knickers were correct.
Although the cane never did us any harm, I don't believe it did us any good either. My kids today at school seem to fear detention as much as we feared the cane.

i went to a immaculate conception school in spinkhill in the early 80's and i was hit with rulers, had blackboard rubbers thrown at me and on one occasion had my underwear pulled down and hit with a slipper.

i remember the slipper incident well as i hadn't actually done anything wrong. a boy in our class was quite spoiled and always had the latest toys, one rainy lunchtime he produced a remote control car which had us all enthralled. none of us were doing anything wrong but a dinner lady walked in just as i asked him if i could have a go ...she launched herself at me saying i was always causing trouble, marched me off the the headmasters office and told him i was causing trouble and was cheeky to her. I was then humiliated in front of everyone and to say i never forgave her is an understatement...some years later i very naughtily threw the contents of dustbins all over her garden.

Kids fearing detention today?? Most of them would tell the teacher to do one, and walk out!!!

I use to go to Tapton Secondary back in the 60's - all the male teachers use to dish out the cane apart from one - the PE teacher who use to whack your bum with a size 10 slipper.
The tec drawing teacher use to keep canes of different thickness's in a cupboard - I've sampled all of them.
Remember once, me and my mate were sent out of assembly for talking whilst the headmaster was giving a speech - we were told to wait outside his office until assembly was over, this guy was known to be good with the cane. I think it was the waiting for him to arrive which was most frightning and when he did, he invited my mate in first and closed the door, from outside I could hear the cane meeting with my mates hands.
My mate came out clutching his hands - it was now my turn........ was told to hold out my left hand, as he brought the cane down I moved my hand......for that I finished up getting 4 strokes instead of the two........and thats just for talking in assembly !!

Hi John
Never went to Tapton but it was at the end of our road. Was Jim Vickers the PE teacher? Is his claim to fame caning Seb Coe?

Hi John
Never went to Tapton but it was at the end of our road. Was Jim Vickers the PE teacher? Is his claim to fame caning Seb Coe?

Hi Morts,
Dont know about him caning Seb Coe, but he caned me quite a few times.
Jim Vickers was the tec drawing teacher I mentioned in my post - had loads of canes of different thickness's.

I can remember getting the cane and the slipper - the cane from Mrs Spencer at Beaver Hill Secondary during the early 60's for wearing dangley earrings and at the same time from Mrs Watkins for forgetting my PE kit.

Originally Posted by Linnet
Yes I got caned by Mr Beeson at Woodhouse West Junior for rolling the pencil he was giving out on the first day of term down the desk!! and Mr Thorpe bless him had a worrying gaite of spanking girls over his knee!!! Would we have questioned it then? You daren't tell your parents for fear of another wallop!

He did (mr thorpe)and quite often, it was the cane for us boys, Nora Richardson being another one who liked giving out the cane. He caught me looking thru the keyhole in the door for him returning from a toilet break , he was spying as i went to the door, 6 of the best, :rant:

At high storrs , Mr Wright SLIPPER, Mr Plant and Bridges along with the head Mr Mardell all used to like caning us.

I remember being caned at stand house school for always being cheeky to the teachers

I remember ..that at my school s.s.m. we had to wait outside the classroom which was locked at dinner time . I made a skeleton key at home ..and duly opened the classroom door and pinched the dreded cane from the cupboard ...the teacher was shocked to see all the class in the room ..and discoverd no cane ..we all went quiet ! bad boy!

I was at Hurlfield Boys School - 1959 to 64 and the Head was ex-Navy and the Deputy 6' 4 was ex-Tank Regiment and they used cane and slippers. The PE head (ex-army) used slipper and the History teacher Ken March used his fists. The Geography teacher was ex Rhodesian airforce and was the only malicious one in a tough but fair school that taught tough kids.

I was at Hurlfield Boys School - 1959 to 64 and the Head was ex-Navy and the Deputy 6' 4 was ex-Tank Regiment and they used cane and slippers. The PE head (ex-army) used slipper and the History teacher Ken March used his fists. The Geography teacher was ex Rhodesian airforce and was the only malicious one in a tough but fair school that taught tough kids.

I was there '58 to '62. I think Pickering - history - should be included in the last category, never caned me but I saw maliciousness when he caned others. IMO Edgerton caned gently and reluctantly and Lupton firmly and impartially.

Yes I got caned at Philadephia school for a messy English book,
the teacher in question was Mrs Burkes.
It turned out the book belonged to someone with the first name as me so she took me to her cuboard and gave me a jelly baby. Wow.
That didn't stop the hurt on my hand.

Never got caned at school, not because I was a good lad, just never got caught doing anything wrong--Lucky me!

I remember getting 4 strokes of the stick for taking some booze into school. Also was a member of the "red hand" gang who got a fullwhack smack on the arse in front of the class.

Who remembers being caned at school?

Part 2

I have said before that most of my teachers were good reasonable people. But some were not! I assume some of you will have been targeted by bullying teachers during your schooling and you will have been in fear. For this reason I don't claim to be a special case but nonetheless I would like to relate to you my own experiences with such types. The three main antagonists were.
Mr Williams - Birley Spa Junior School
Mr Kirk - Carter Lodge Secondary School
Mr Lines - Birley Secondary School.

Part 1 - Mr Williams

Physical

One day Mr Williams came out of a classroom and caught three of us in the corridor playing football and gave us a telling off then sent the other two packing and took me into the classroom and gave me a short but loud lecture about disobedience then bent me over a desk and proceeded to slap my bare legs (I wore short trousers in those days) really hard. It didn't stop after a few slaps but went on for ages and I was screaming out with pain with tears streaming down my face. When he had finished he shouted for me to get out and "walk don't run". That was my first physical puishment from him. Later at home I told me mother what had happened and she said ''That's what you get when you don't behave". To say I was disappointed with her response is a big understatement. Some weeks later I received from Mr Williams a similar punishment this time for whispering in class. I got the same response as last time from me mother when I complained and that's when I lost faith and knew I was all on my own against this monster of a teacher with nobody to turn to. My dad was a dead loss too. I won't go into detail about the occasion when he hit me with a rounder bat save to say it left a nasty looking bruise on the left side of my back. I always kept my back covered until the bruise had disappeared because I felt nobody would believe if I told them about it. I wasn't the only one to be mistreated by him.

Psychological.
During arts and craft's lessons I made a train engine from a cereal box, toilet roll card, other bits, glue and papier mache and I was so proud and surprised that at last I had made something really nice and thought that it would get me into Mr Williams' good books. Well, how wrong can one be? A few days later when us children were leaving class he called for me to stay behind. When the door was closed he went on a loud rant about me being disobedient (I hadn't been) and that I was a horrible child then he picked up the train engine I was so proud of and started to bash it against a desk until it was completely destroyed all the time shouting at me and I was standing in front of him with my arms by my side with head bowed and shaking like a leaf in a stiff breeze whimpering with a mewl. After this incident I didn't receive many more rants and physical punishments from him because he had changed his tactics to refusing to look or speak to me in class but when in the corridor he would stare at me in an intimidating menacing way.
Coming home in the evening from playing out I knew it would soon be bedtime and that meant the next day I would be facing Mr Williams and that caused me to have many sleepless nights. It got to the stage when I would feign illness and told mum I didn't feel well enough to go to school, but she wasn't having any of it. Those long fearsome days came to an end eventually and I was relieved to know I would be going to the big boys school never to see Mr Williams again.
Everything you have read is fact and it all seems like yesterday (one of the problems of having a long memory). This all happened between 45-49 years ago and you are the first persons to know the full details of this. It's been bottled up inside me all this time.
Zakes.

Mid sixties Hinde House Comprehensive, got three of the best for going on the stage in the main hall. I was only acting out alas poor yorick. It was the beginning of my claim to fame cus my mother was none too pleased with the 3 whelts I had on each arse cheek. She made a right old fuss and a picture of my arse ended up on scene at six thirty ( like calendar on yorkshire tv) . That was my one and only appearance on telly fortunatley they captured my best side admirabley.

Regular canings for me throughout my schooling (1955-1967) for things such as lost homework, shoddy uniform, wrong PE kit, not bringing shoes having travelled to school in wellies, no pencil, forgetting text book, having hands in pockets, not having something my parents should have bought me, coughing/sneezing/scratching after being told not to, and other assorted crimes.

Best days of our lives?

Cobblers!!

Mid sixties Hinde House Comprehensive, got three of the best for going on the stage in the main hall. I was only acting out alas poor yorick. It was the beginning of my claim to fame cus my mother was none too pleased with the 3 whelts I had on each arse cheek. She made a right old fuss and a picture of my arse ended up on scene at six thirty ( like calendar on yorkshire tv) . That was my one and only appearance on telly fortunatley they captured my best side admirabley.

Sounds like Derlwyn at his best.

@Zakes...thats horrible-******** like that would be locked up these days

Boardrubbers chalk sticks were thrown at you or you were sent to see the headmaster for 6 of the best Durring the winter when the heating was on i would keep my hands on the pipes untill they were red then return to class show my hands to teacher & return to my seat

In the 40's at Greystones Inter. we had some odd puddings at lunch. One was prunes followed by horrid pink semolina. After the prunes while waiting for the semolina we were hitting the prunestones wth the spoon which shot across to whoever was sat opposite. We were dragged out by the head, Rough Reeman & given 6 of the best. On returning to our seats the lad opposite who was very small & thin went white as a sheet & fainted face down into his semolina. Rough Reeman then clouted me around the head as though it was my fault! We also had a pop eyed maths teacher with bottle bottom glasses who caned a lad so hard he couldnt stop crying. He took him outside, gave him half a crown & sent him home. Happy days.

was the teacher called mr morgan & the woodwork teacher callled mr worral i remember going round to the back door & pinching the some of treacle tart the cooks had put back to take home

was the teacher called mr morgan & the woodwork teacher callled mr worral i remember going round to the back door & pinching the some of treacle tart the cooks had put back to take home

I think the math teacher with the bottle bottom glasses was Mr Pemberton .He used to put your name in his `little Black Book` for any mis demeanours. Three entries and you got a detention.No physical punishment.He was a good teacher who loved maths.He taught the top 4th and 5th year classes.Mr Morgan was the P.E. teacher as well as doing some other subject I can`t remember what with the younger pupils. Rough Reeman once ordered me to leave morning assembly and go to his office. He followed me and gave me two strokes of the cane.He sent me back into assembly and he resumed his conducting of it.I got no explanation of the reason for the punishment.None of my friends could understand what it was for.You just didn`t ask questions about punishment in those days unless you wanted it doubled.Mr Worral, the woodwork teacher, used a length of 2x2in instead of a cane.

I think the math teacher with the bottle bottom glasses was Mr Pemberton .He used to put your name in his `little Black Book` for any mis demeanours. Three entries and you got a detention.No physical punishment.He was a good teacher who loved maths.He taught the top 4th and 5th year classes.Mr Morgan was the P.E. teacher as well as doing some other subject I can`t remember what with the younger pupils. Rough Reeman once ordered me to leave morning assembly and go to his office. He followed me and gave me two strokes of the cane.He sent me back into assembly and he resumed his conducting of it.I got no explanation of the reason for the punishment.None of my friends could understand what it was for.You just didn`t ask questions about punishment in those days unless you wanted it doubled.Mr Worral, the woodwork teacher, used a length of 2x2in instead of a cane.

Also not so fondly known as Spam in his Hinde House days.
But you are right Lysander - he wasn't a bad teacher.

At All Saints Juniors kids often got the ruler across the back of the knees by Miss Sails. I got it for messy writing, and being left handed!! She said that being left handed made my writing messy and tried forcing me to use my other hand - til my mum paid her a visit. (the second in 2 weeks as it happens)
I also had chalk and the blackboard rubber thrown at the back of my head. They hit the back of my head because I was turning round talking to my mate behind me. Serves me right on those occasions. You could even get a clip from the local policeman in those days.
Even then, I do believe punishment should be harsher in schools. It didn't really do us any harm, and we have more respect for people and property than a lot of youths today. If parents won't correct their children, and schools are unable to, how will they ever learn that some behaviour is unacceptable?

Sally Sails gave me the ruler for dropping my pencil. Stood me in good stead for later when I faced the stick from Mr. Hall!

I think the math teacher with the bottle bottom glasses was Mr Pemberton .He used to put your name in his `little Black Book` for any mis demeanours. Three entries and you got a detention.No physical punishment.He was a good teacher who loved maths.He taught the top 4th and 5th year classes.Mr Morgan was the P.E. teacher as well as doing some other subject I can`t remember what with the younger pupils. Rough Reeman once ordered me to leave morning assembly and go to his office. He followed me and gave me two strokes of the cane.He sent me back into assembly and he resumed his conducting of it.I got no explanation of the reason for the punishment.None of my friends could understand what it was for.You just didn`t ask questions about punishment in those days unless you wanted it doubled.Mr Worral, the woodwork teacher, used a length of 2x2in instead of a cane.
music teacher was miss wilkinson what was the french teachers name ?

went to meynell seem to remember getn caned quite a bit but made sure i didnt get caned by mr fleming other teachers i remember were fairhurst williams bunting halliday knowles salt miss robinson headmaster mr hemmings

Name and shame Zakes hopefully some member of their families will perhaps
see it, and realise what sadistic B's they were.

music teacher was miss wilkinson what was the french teachers name ?

When I was there the music teacher was Miss Hopwood who I was told lived with the senior English teacher Miss Baxter.The junior French teacher was Miss Byard.I can`t recall at this time the name of senior teacher He also looked after the senior football team.

I got caned while at Ecclesfield Juniors as several of us were throwing snowballs at the headmasters office window :D
Just a couple of whacks across our freezing cold hands :rolleyes:

While at Colley a certain Mr Seamore took his cane out from a rack .. whacked it down on his desk and told me "unfortunately I'm no longer allowed to use this" and he gave me detention instead,

Mind you if he'd have caned me I was ready to throw him out the window ;)


JJ..:)

i remember it well mrs scott the most evil person ever to walk on this earth i was six years old and evey time the bitch walked pass my desk down came a wooden ruler on my knuckels for nothing; months she did this .she started me biting my nails i was with drawn i lived in fear every day of going to school .untill finaly my mother knew something wasnt right with me .i finaly told her she went and got it sorted.her excuse was she dosent listen . hard to do when shes sat at the back of the class room and shes partly deft . the ****ing ******* but she was told by head teacher i need to be near front so i can hear her or if didnt hear her i could lip read what i didnt catch with my ears .i hope she rots in hell

Who remembers being caned at school?

Part 2

I have said before that most of my teachers were good reasonable people. But some were not! I assume some of you will have been targeted by bullying teachers during your schooling and you will have been in fear. For this reason I don't claim to be a special case but nonetheless I would like to relate to you my own experiences with such types. The three main antagonists were.
Mr Williams - Birley Spa Junior School
Mr Kirk - Carter Lodge Secondary School
Mr Lines - Birley Secondary School.

Part 1 - Mr Williams

Physical

One day Mr Williams came out of a classroom and caught three of us in the corridor playing football and gave us a telling off then sent the other two packing and took me into the classroom and gave me a short but loud lecture about disobedience then bent me over a desk and proceeded to slap my bare legs (I wore short trousers in those days) really hard. It didn't stop after a few slaps but went on for ages and I was screaming out with pain with tears streaming down my face. When he had finished he shouted for me to get out and "walk don't run". That was my first physical puishment from him. Later at home I told me mother what had happened and she said ''That's what you get when you don't behave". To say I was disappointed with her response is a big understatement. Some weeks later I received from Mr Williams a similar punishment this time for whispering in class. I got the same response as last time from me mother when I complained and that's when I lost faith and knew I was all on my own against this monster of a teacher with nobody to turn to. My dad was a dead loss too. I won't go into detail about the occasion when he hit me with a rounder bat save to say it left a nasty looking bruise on the left side of my back. I always kept my back covered until the bruise had disappeared because I felt nobody would believe if I told them about it. I wasn't the only one to be mistreated by him.

Psychological.
During arts and craft's lessons I made a train engine from a cereal box, toilet roll card, other bits, glue and papier mache and I was so proud and surprised that at last I had made something really nice and thought that it would get me into Mr Williams' good books. Well, how wrong can one be? A few days later when us children were leaving class he called for me to stay behind. When the door was closed he went on a loud rant about me being disobedient (I hadn't been) and that I was a horrible child then he picked up the train engine I was so proud of and started to bash it against a desk until it was completely destroyed all the time shouting at me and I was standing in front of him with my arms by my side with head bowed and shaking like a leaf in a stiff breeze whimpering with a mewl. After this incident I didn't receive many more rants and physical punishments from him because he had changed his tactics to refusing to look or speak to me in class but when in the corridor he would stare at me in an intimidating menacing way.
Coming home in the evening from playing out I knew it would soon be bedtime and that meant the next day I would be facing Mr Williams and that caused me to have many sleepless nights. It got to the stage when I would feign illness and told mum I didn't feel well enough to go to school, but she wasn't having any of it. Those long fearsome days came to an end eventually and I was relieved to know I would be going to the big boys school never to see Mr Williams again.
Everything you have read is fact and it all seems like yesterday (one of the problems of having a long memory). This all happened between 45-49 years ago and you are the first persons to know the full details of this. It's been bottled up inside me all this time.
Zakes.
Did u not return with a few 'friends' after u had left the school and sort the b***ard out?I would have done.Your story has made me feel really angry.

Teachers had several weapons to hand when I was at school. There was the bamboo cane, plimsolls, rulers (for rapping the knuckles) and ping pong table tennis bats.

I got belted around the ear from behind once

Some of them seemed to enjoy disihing it out too

I got caned in front of assembly by headteacher and then when i got back to my class the teacher canned me again[Prince Edwards Manor Top] All i had done was set a banger of in the library real mardy arses them teachers where.

went to upperthorpe first encounter was with old man Inman his method was a slipper; you would bend over at on end of the room and he would tap on the radiator with the slipper and run across the room and wack you on the backside.The head Mr Causey loved the cane; it was said it contained lead in one end and yes it did smart.Jim Vickers a considerate woodwork teacher let me go to the bogs for a crafty fag and then gave me the stick for the honour of the privelige.The final occurrence was with who i regarded as an absolute bully that keep fit fanatic Burton he used to take some into the cloakroom and give them a thump or two, my punishment i got the stick he missed his mark and caned me across the wrist calling him a four eyed B******d i was of home nursing a swollen wrist.Had a three week holiday until the old man was ready to go and see the Head teacher.Thank you for your due punishment all concerned

Who remembers being caned at school?

Part 3 - Mr. Kirk.

This teacher was not as bad as Mr Williams at Birley Spa Juniors but nevertheless I didn't like him, feelings mutual then! We children were tenderfoot's at Carter Lodge Secondary School when we first came across the grey haired Mr. Kirk, the one with the thrupenny bit shaped silver framed specs. During our first P.E. lesson one of the things we were to do was a handstand with feet touching the wall bars. Those of us who couldn't get up were helped by Mr. Kirk by lifting our feet up sharply to touch the wall bars followed by a quick and painful slap at the back of each leg. This happened over several painful P.E. lessons but I had been practising at home in my bedroom and so exempting myself from further pain. Mr Kirk liked sending us lads out on cross country runs usually down Drakehouse which I didn't mind because I was quite good at running but some of the other boys weren't and Mr Kirk always pushed them to the limit and I felt right sorry for them.
One other time I was playing football for my house team Pegasus against Griffin and we were attacking and the water ladened case ball came over from the left wing and I had the simple task to nod the ball into the net but at the last second I decided not to be a hero and have my head taken off by the wet 'cannonball' so I pulled my head back in at the last moment and the ball went out for a goal kick. After the game was over Mr Kirk came over to me and with hard glaring eyes told me I had missed a sitter and I agreed and he was stunned by my retort and when he recovered he shouted that I wouldn't be playing again for my house team or for the school team for that matter. After a half year my family flitted (and I went with them), so it was goodbye to Hackenthorpe and Mr Kirk and hello to Birley and Mr Lines......Oh dear, out of the pan and into the fire.

got the cane many a time and slipper. earlmarshall school 1970's

haha I was caned so often my arse is still sore(Im 64) now.
Pity they dont bring it back and knock some respect into todays hooligans

do you remember ever being caned at school or getting slippered
i did many a time in front of all the school
what did you get caned for :hihi:

for stuffing teachers exhaust pipe up with snow cos she was a right cow

lol @ Barry Smith!

"Six of the Best" was quite common in the 40's and 50's at Shiregreen School...When you took your punishment you had to keep yourself from showing any kind of pain..the slightest detection of a tear and you were doomed...You would be regarded by your classmates as a "Sissy" ..And as you returned to your desk they would make remarks such as "Look He's Roorin" and laugh at you.....After a good caning you couldn't hold a pen for a least 30 min's and the whelts stayed till the next day.

a caneing and bullying:confused: sounds horrible!

Yes I got caned at Philadephia school for a messy English book,
the teacher in question was Mrs Burkes.
It turned out the book belonged to someone with the first name as me so she took me to her cuboard and gave me a jelly baby. Wow.
That didn't stop the hurt on my hand.

I got caned regularly by Mrs. Burke, most of the time she didn't need a reason! I remember her giving the kids a sweet when it was their birthday, I missed out on that because my birthday was in the school holidays!!

Caned at St Silas C of E in early 50's. Teacher used a brass edged ruler and you got the brass edge. Also had head hit with board rubber, hair at side of head twisted and worst of all the psychological torture with any physical defect picked on by the teachers.

Slippered at City Grammar School by sports teacher. He made you stand at the top of some stairs so you daren't flinch forwards.

Anyone brought up the Ali G joke? never mind.

I'm 28 and when I was at school I thought they should have brought it back (I was no saint)... but even more so now.

I do remember our woodwork teacher had a PLANK of wood he would slam on the desk, such a loud crack it immediately got attention, unfortunately he couldn't hit the kids with it :/

I also love the Dara O Briain about the chalk monster.

I remember the back of my left hand being rattled with 2 rulers,at infants school to stop me writting with my left hand.Guess what I'm still left handed.

We had history teacher called Mr Cannon (1977is) who was always throwing things at us, one day he throw chair across the room but this particular time it didnt miss and hit a boy across the head and shoulders , knocked him clean out, poor lad ended up in hospital with concussion and Mr Cannon was never seen again , dismissed from his job on the spot. Rumour has that the boy years later tracked this nasty piece of work down and beat 9 barrels out him. I hope its true.

I remember being asked to hold out my hand for 3 lashes, for chinning a bullly who'd just smacked a younger lass.
Of course i refused.
When the teacher insisted and started to man handle me into position my hand slipped, stupid clenched fist, no idea how he ended up on the floor seeing me expelled and devoid of education aged 13.
Ah well, at least i put my spare time to good use and became a very proficient gardener.

A teacher tried to cane my big brother , he would have been about 15 at the time just about to leave school, but my brother managed to some how get hold of the cane and bend it out of shape, then threw it at the teacher and walked out the door he never did go back to school, started work the following week with my dad.

Don't get me wrong, i'd love for the cane and the slipper to still be a part of "education", Just in my case the verdict was wrong and found in favour of the bully who went on to become a smackhead who now takes from society without giving owt back in the way of taxes.
How perverse is that. ?

did us no harm tho

I hated kirk at carter lodge
Williams at birly spa was always ok with me when I was in his class
The worse was cooper at gleadless valley I'm sure he got a kick out of caning us

spock cooper

did us no harm tho
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HI YA.
LOVED THE CANE. :hihi::hihi::hihi::hihi::hihi:

I was slippered age 7 for being chased and bullied by a boy! not my fault... Also caned infront of the Geography class on both hands for forgetting my text book, 4 others joined me. I was caned by Mr Birch twice on each hand for wagging school 1 afternoon and same again for fighting on school grounds with a girl who had it in for me! :rant::(

Weston Road from 53 to 59 caned quite often ....... almost on a daily basis
Long list of teachers who dealt it out to me but by far worse was Mr Bulmer and Mr Fry!

mr. robson music teacher 70s at jordanthorpe school ,used a violin bow that used to wrap round your hand.good old days