There are no doubt many people who can reminisce about school corporal punishment from the 1960s and earlier, but how recent does it go?

I am thinking of the more rcent cases that became notorious (see corpun for details), Barry Tavner and the case of Derek Slade, both date from the mid 1980s.

Did events change? These isolated instances suggest whilst CP may have reduced dramatically, those who kept with the old approach still carried on pretty much regardless.

Oliver

Joan Thomas, Headmistress of Rodney School was still flagellating her unfortunate pupils in the early 1990's. Appearing on a television programme about eight years ago, Mzzz Thomas, a fearsome looking woman, claimed that she had received from two girls that she had recently caned, a gift of some chocolates (injected with rat poison, I trust) because they wanted to say they were sorry for entering the boys' dormitory.

Rodney School gets a brief mention on Colin Farrell's splendid site with a press cutting from the 'Indie' 1 May 1994, and further details of the caning were given on the sfruk site. This latter may now be defunct.

Hi,

I am a male in my early twenties and received cp on the hands in primary school. This happened once, the year I believe was 1986, the same year there was a vote to ban cp. The incident occurred with a young female teacher who was very annoyed with a couple of us talking. Myself and another pupil were given a stroke of the plastic ruler on each hand. It hurt immensely although cp was never used again.

>> ... details of the caning were given on the sfruk site. This latter may now be defunct.

The site's address is now:

http://sfrsite.topcities.com

R.G.

Do remember that the UK isn't the whole world. While corporal punishment may have been removed from British schools, it's still in use in some other places.

I am deputy head of a large boy's school in Victoria, Australia, and we do still use the cane here - admittedly, one of only a fairly small number of schools in the country where this is so. But it is still being used.

I've just found this message board and think it's great. Reference to the infamous Derek Slade prompts me to ask if anyone here knew him. I nearly met him but something about his manner on when I spoke to him on the telephone put me off.

Tim

Is caning at your school to both boys and girls?
Is it given on the hands or bottom or both?
What ages are the children that you cane?

My school is a boys only secondary school, (so ages from 12-17, roughly) and we cane across the bottom. We had a small number of girls attending classes in the early 1970s (from our sister school, girls who wanted to study senior mathematics and science classes which their school didn't offer yet) but besides that period, all my experience is with teaching boys.

I was strapped at my school in Alberta/Canada in 1998. It was a private school but also state schools in Alberta still permit corporal punishment. I received five strokes across my bottom for swearing.

Derek Slade is still teaching. He opened a prep school for orphan boys in India.