All of the lights were turned on and I dragged my eyes open and saw a wiry little red haired woman in a white uniform charging around the dormitory. Either they were used to it, got it at home often, or just did not see this VP as much of a threat with a paddle in her hand. When their children, however, get to the "boarding school" age, they cannot understand the "indignity" of having them stripped and caned for wilful disobedience or other faults that show the want of that self-control which it is one of the principal objects of education to inculcate. Then catching me by the wrist, as I stood by her side covered with confusion, she tried to lay me across her knees, but I struggled and screamed, "No!

His 1st inclination would not to have been to go full force on this little sophomore’s bottom , but he was thankful that there was an administrator who was willing to finally deal with a growing discipline problem in the school. She had no issues with corporal punishment; in fact all of her children had been spankedat some point in their lives.Very few could beat her in any of the races, and she could throw a baseball further than any, and she broke the school’s record for this I believe. Will you, try and behave better, or shall I send you off to the convent at once, in their holiday time? After dressing we assembled in the ‘common room’ and marched down another long stone floored hallway to the strains of a march played on the piano by one of the ‘big girls’. We either had cornflakes (instead of oatmeal) and bacon, and marmalade instead of jam for our bread and butter.

C." of Athy, now that he (or she) has had time to calm down, will tell us where the "brutality" in giving a good strapping to a girl of 17 who is disobedient and indisciplined comes in. It is sometimes suggested, though it would be impossible to establish conclusively, that the Rodney School might have been the last-ever mainstream private school to give up CP. With the thought if making a real difference he lifted the paddle high in the air and brought it down as hard as he could swing.

Indeed, I must, though every blow will send a pang to my own heart, you naughty, bad, inattentive girl, all this has come by your great idleness, and trusting too much to the kind heart of your governess. How should I punish a girl, whoose recent encounter with a certain cane has seemingly had no effect on her behaviour? She approached the male baseball coach, as he was as big an intimidating of a teacher as there was on campus.