The whole class

The following story was related to our contributor by his father, and comes from his dad’s own boyhood in the late 40s/early 50s. His son has attempted to retell this incident as his father described it to him. By the time we got to the second year of primary school, we’d all had the edges […]

After class

When I was eight, I was in Miss Bateman’s class. She was quite a young teacher (although she seemed ancient to us children, of course), with by now quite old-fashioned ‘batwing’ glasses (this was the 1970s) and a rather severe manner about her. One afternoon, during a particularly boring geography lesson, I found my attention […]

Do you want a smacked bum?

Many years ago, much to the annoyance of my mother, I used to run upstairs to my bedroom most evenings after school to change into my football kit. I usually ignored her warning of ‘do you want a smacked bum?’ as she rarely put me over her knee when I was being naughty. However, one […]

A heap of trouble

I think I must have been around six years old and in my kindergarten class. It was winter time and I was wearing pantyhose under my dress that day. It had been snowing a lot and outside in the school yard was a large heap of snow which had been cleared from the ground. Us […]

The Spanking Mum: The N-word

According to a recent report in the UK’s Daily Mail, more than nine in ten nursery workers have been told not to use the word ‘naughty’ when dealing with misbehaviour. Danielle Butler, operations director at Tommies Childcare in the Midlands, said children may feel ‘labelled’ as ‘naughty’ and instead urged nursery staff to manage bad […]

Listening in on a paddling

In a previous contribution to your site, I gave an overview, as it were, of how I came to be the vice-principal of a Christian School, and my basic opinions on corporal punishment. So I thought your readers might be interested in a description of how things were actually done, in the form of a story. […]