caning at school?

[Goodsoulette]

When did they stop doing this?
How old are you and were you spanked, caned at school?

[turboped]

We (4 or 5 of us) used to get a wooden ruler, sideways, across the palm, nearly every morning (great deterant) in winter for going inside the building before the bell, I was aged 10/11 some 30 years ago.

[Goodsoulette]

Actually Pippa I am 27 and we had blackboards all along. Even my little boy has a blackboard in his classroom.

[Pippa68]

Really Goodsoulette? wow..my sister is the same age as you and she has never seen a blackboard..neither have my children!

it must have been an area thing.

[mimififi]

according to http://www.corpun.com/uksc8102.htm there is no corporal punishments in Russia. Rather, children's crimes are written down and pasted on the notice board at the entrance of the schools for all parents/visitors to read.

The shame of a misdemeanour means punishments are taken care of by the parents.

I haven't found any web evidence to support corporal punishment in Russian schools.

[Goodsoulette]

If hitting the kids in school was allowed, I would be the first to complain about a teacher spanking my boy. I just dont believe in hitting kids at all.

[Goodsoulette]

or shouting lol but then again I actually cannot physically shout.

[dot.hawkes]

Le Chat, my late father-in-law worked at Scarisbricke hall School in the early 1980s as a janitor, I passed it every day on the way to work in Broardbents, is it still a school? i thought it had changed to a corporate meeting place. They knocked my school down OGS.

[JustSia]

Pippa, mimififi, thanks. I am very well aware that most of the things it comes out with are complete and utter nonsense. That�s why I usually just ignore its threads. What I would like to say is that IT is not Russian. And its keenness to stir up resentment towards Russians in the people willing to hear all that nonsense is what really annoys me.

Russian schools encourage discipline in the classroom. Students are sat in the rows of 2, can only speak to the teacher when allowed thus its easy to maintain a figure of authority so the use of corporal punishment is unnecessary. The worst that can happen is the wrong-doer can get sent out of the classroom, which immediately goes on his/her record and the parents are informed. It�s far too easy to get expelled from the school for misbehaviour so very few try. I believe, its pretty much the way things used to be here in the 50s, minus the corporal punishment.

[bitchyruskie]

Just because it is not officaly used it is legal and it does happen reguarly.

[JustSia]

Yes, Dear, whatever makes you happy!

Still I'd like to know where you get your facts from. Go on, you pride yourself on being 'honest'.

[Butty]

Certainly I was caned across my palms in 1978 at my Grammar School. That was for forgetting to use sub headings in a History essay....

The headmaster used to cane people himself for major misdemeanours. I'd say it had died out by 1980 though.

[Le Chat]

dot.hawkes. Scarisbrick Hall is still a school, although it amalgamated with Kingswood (from Southport). It is now called Kingswood at Scarisbrick Hall. A far inferior school to the one I knew ...so I'm told!

[aka pixi]

Im 40 and I got caned a couple of times at school. We also used to get a ruler over the back of our hands or a big ruler over our backsides. There was also the slipper which was actually the PE teachers huge size 12 trainer. (Why did the PE staff always seem to dish out the punishments?) I seem to remember bringing a form home when I was about 13/14 that asked for parental permission to give cane and stuff to the pupils. I think my parents signed that it was okay to do it :(

[Goodsoulette]

awwww pixi...well if you get a similar one back from the nursing home you know where to put your mark. : S

[farcanal]

Yes i had both the slipper a fair few times including six of the best and the cane on a couple of ocassions at school---it was very painful and i got it for doing very little wrong at strict schools. Todays school children get away with anything.

[dune]

never got the cane at my school but the slipper was a favourite form of torture for most teachers who dished it out for pretty much anything they didn't like including stupid things like forgetting dinner money. i never saw a girl get slippered altho it was common enough for lads to get it in front of class. ah, the good old days (!!!)

[Rich Essex]

I left school in 1978 and the cane was still used for serious misbehaviour - 3 strokes across the bottom usually. I believe the cane was scrapped in state schools in the UK around 1989. I was very lucky. I never got the cane myself but was threatened with it a few times.