Saturday, 8 September 2007
Effective punishment
A long time ago - I think I'm writing in saying I would have been five years old - I witnessed a girl in my class on the receiving end of corporal punishment. This was a very rare event - normally you just had to stand in a corner, put your hands on your head, or stand on your chair. The girl was called Diane and she sat with her twin brother. I still don't know what she did but suddenly the teacher swept to the back of the classroom where Diane was sitting, seized her arm and pulled her to her feet. The girl would have been wearing the school uniform skirt and, because it was summer, short white ankle socks. The teacher managed to turn Diane 'round and said something like "Don't ever do that again." while she punctuated each word of the sentence with a slap across the lower half of Diane's legs before pushing the unfortunate girl back on to her seat. Diane just sat there quietly crying and nothing more was said. By break time Diane was a bit more composed but very quiet - however I noticed that there were unmistakable red fingermarks across her legs. There was no hiding the fact that she'd been punished and that must have been so humiliating in itself when she was in the playground. I never saw anyone else get similar treatment but it made a big impact on me at the time.
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From UK Edward. Up to the age of 11, I was in what we called Junior School (Circa 1971). Many a time I can recall a fellow pupil - both male and female - being pulled to the front of the class for a smacked bottom. I was one of them!! Yes it was embarassing, but soon forgotten because that was the way of things in those days. I wonder how much it happens now lol ?
I had a very similar experience -- almost word for word! Well, not getting spanked but sitting in class when I was in fourth grade (10 years old -- 1983) when the teacher suddenly stormed down the aisle, pulled this normally quiet girl out of her seat, bent her over the table and spanked her several times on the bottom. I think she too said something like "don't you ever do that again." If I remember correctly, the gossip later was that the girl had stuck her tongue out at the teacher. And the girl did have the mother of all sneers if properly prompted.
But, alas, this is America where most school districts are horrified at the thought of uniforms so the girl was wearing jeans. No marks to see on the playground. But the whole thing seared itself into my imagination, especially as deep down there was a part of me that would have loved for that teacher to spank me. ;)
In the early 1950s I was at a nasty junior school on the south coast. CP was used freely although always cane on hands. One day when I was about 9 I was working away when I heard a sudden commotion from the queue at the front. The male teacher, a man of uncertain temper, pulled a girl over his lap, raised her skirt and began spanking her with his hand. It was maybe 8 or so smacks and he stopped. As far as I am aware there was no trouble for him in doing so.
Old Tom
Hi James
Bare-skinned legs & bare-skinned bottoms.
Great to read the comments here, already, James. I like real life facts & stories not fantasy nonsense. Your Blog keeps us all grounded. Wonderful !
I sure have witnessed, received & administered (to my two daughters) a bunch of corporal punishment on bare bottoms. And I guess back in the 1950s, 60s, 70s & 80s. the CP aspects of our South were similar to UK & Europe, already. I always joke that at my age right now (61 in new year) that everything is vintage, already.
I have written before that as a general rule, CP at School gotten given on unclothed bottoms, but CP at home gotten given on unclothed bottoms. That sure makes sense.
Outdoor, public spankings were common in the store, the mall, municipal park or parking lot in my 1960s childhood in Atlanta, Georgia. When a naughty, lil' princess gotten her shorts & panties pulled down by an exasperated mother, & a chubby, bare lily white backside gotten just desserts aka "the hornets nest" applied to adjust tantrums & attitudes. I never gotten spanked in public & likewise I never smacked my own daughters in public. But in private punishments gotten to be properly harsh but very fair: "don't spare the bare." And of course completely harmless too.
My younger sister & me gotten to fear & feel, from a young age, the smack of a flexible, rattan switch-cane across our bare, soft-skinned botties at home from mom: with our pretty 1950s dresses hoisted & our 1950s traditional, white, cotton knickers pulled down to our knees. It was the Christian way !! A well-smacked bottom was the only penalty. PC or groundings did not exist in the 1960s. Not in our house & not in our buddies' houses. The Church said to parents, "don't spare the rod".
I witnessed my girlfriends getting the Southern strap (very common) or ubiquitous hairbrush across their bare botties from their mom or dad. It was just normal back then, James. We expected nothing less. Again, my own mother surprisingly did not whoop us in front of friends (some token consolation !) but we sure gotten our fairest, bare seats soundly whipped red sore with the rattan stick after, in private !
I am a strict mom, so naturally adopted the same punishment routine for my own two young girls in the 1980s/90s. I fetched the "botty smacker" aka that same dreaded, lil' rattan cane from the cupboard, and two lil' pairs of shorts had to come down to their pudgy knees, followed by two pairs of lil' cotton knickers. Yes, plenty of sad tears & loud squawks but they sure took my spankings seriously, James. Cane to tender, bare botties sure gotten feared & felt. Very effective, I found as a mom ! Loving & harmless too. And the same punishment I gotten as a naughty lil' girl, of course. I cannot abide half-measures on spanking, James. So my girls gotten none. They are thankful today as Southern family values endure.
thank you kindly Sir !
Regards,
Brenda xx
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