by numberplease » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:45 pm
In our school, in S.Yorkshire, we had the battleboard on our backsides in the infants, that was a table tennis bat without the rubber coating. I was battleboarded once, in the 3rd year, unjustly, I thought, for damaging my own clothing, not the school`s property. That was Mrs. Wilkinson, a right tartar! In the juniors, there was the cane, which I was given twice, once for being late, administered by Mr.Winks, the headmaster, and once for paying more attention to a little doll I had sitting on the top of my desk than to the lesson. I still hate Mrs.Taylor to this day. I remember her once calling a boy out to be caned, can`t remember what for, he was standing in front of the blackboard, one of those large swing over ones, as she lifteds the cane high, ready to bring it down on his palm, it caught the blackboard and it swung over and hit him on the head, knocking him over. He lay there, stunned and crying, she comforted him, then when he`d calmed down, she caned him!!