Five more followed, each time preceded by a run up and a puff of dust from the pupil’s unwashed keks. Despite being a Christian and an RE teacher, Alan Webster took great delight in inflicting pain on other human beings, and we could never understand this.

Compare and contrast with the situation at Glaisdale School in my posting under Should we bring back the cane? on 29 May.

The use of the chair suggests a certain amount of preparation rather than impromptu, so presumably these outdoor canings were organised for break times to add to the humiliation.

 

After cross country runs, if boys had cheated or not tried hard enough they would be slippered by one of the PE masters outside the coach taking us back to school. Not many people passed by but those that did would have seen and heard it.