I’d left the cane lying on the sofa in the sitting-room; and both mum and dad would be home from their work long before I was.

Karen Lewis had survived for several years in the firm but fair environment of St Mary’s School for Young Ladies, under the usually benevolent if strict regime of Dr Hopkins. I ambled back into the kitchen and sat at the table with a bowl of soup and wondered about what it felt like to be caned. An opportunity arises for a student to make some extra cash By Julie Baker I am a twenty-one year old student in my final year at a central London university studying English literature. By Pat Greenham It was morning break at Grinsdack College and four prefects were waiting outside the office of Mrs Becker, the Deputy Headmistress. In fact the 'controversy' was fabricated, and official schoolboy-style "bend over the desk" canings for British army lads under 18 were accepted as quite normal within the service (though rarely mentioned outside it) until the practice was abolished in about 1955.Over the past five years Maggie had become addicted to the cane and could barely go a month without asking [. By Pat Greenham At the age of 26, Paula found herself unemployed for the first time since leaving school, and having recently broken up with her boyfriend she made a big decision. Two such punishments are heard on the soundtrack from inside the principal's office -- one paddling of a boy and one of a girl, both aged about 17.

United States: Members of the public are interviewed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 2007, on their views about corporal punishment in school in light of a bill to abolish paddling in the state.

His mother had given permission for the punishment, but then complained when it left marks on his rear. Well… I thought for a bit, and then said that it seemed like it had been a long year, and that everyone seemed a bit tense, you know. It appeared that he wasn’t after the kind of desk I’d been looking at, but wanted an old-style teacher’s desk. United States: 4-minute TV news debate on school paddling (Sep 2013) arising out of the case of a mother in Alabama who objected to it. The whole thing in fact fascinated me and if I were really honest I was quite turned on (as they would say now days) at seeing the girls undress.