[Closed] So. Who got the cane at school?

BigDummy - Member
I did not. And yet I still pay a fortune to be tied up and beaten by women dressed as nazi officers. Pity.

actually this is true for me though ive never had to pay 👿

I was mostly a swot tbh but once..
Biology teacher was also girls PE teacher
mucking around in biology me and james ward got detention, he was really pleased, I soon found out why...
detention meant staying behind for an hour while teacher ran after school girls trampolening club, a lot of the girls were from the years above. Best Detention Ever

I was quite fortunate in that corporal punishment was abolished just as I started high school so was largely immune to it. There was a few of the teachers, however, who struggled to adjust to the new fangled methods of teaching without beating which resulted in me being strewn across the classroom into a couple of desks on more than one occasion.

At primary school (so in the three tier school system, that's ages 5-9) I had a pencil fight with a friend. He super sharpened his pencil and stabbed me in the arm with it. I retaliated with my blunt pencil. He then re-sharpened his pencil and got me again in the arm. A teacher then appeared at which point the friend burst into tears. I was canned on the back of the hand by the head or deputy head in his office. Had no effect on me, well, other than to strengthen my resolve not to let the bastards grind me down. I learnt very early in life that right, wrong, facts and truth often play a back-seat to who complains loudest. I still have the two pencil leads embedded in my arm from where the friend snapped them off.

When I started high school in 1978 (aged 13) it was the last year of canning in government schools in our area. One boy in our year did get the cane, for which the whole school was assembled to witness.

Edit: I did have a bonkers R.E. teacher in high school whose favourite tricks were:

A: Creeping up behind someone who was busy chatting and smashing hem over the head with his large and heavy Old Testament often knocking them off the stool they were sat on (we hand R.E. in the science block).

and/or

B: Launching the wooden blackboard eraser at errant pupils.

Mr. Nancaro (sp?) how on earth did you get any job anywhere near vulnerable (by definition) children?

yep, when I was 11 in 1981 for calling the music teacher a silly cow. I still remember being in the headmasters office quite clearly, some patronising twit going on about how we should have respect for the school blah blah... taking the cane off the hook on the wall and leaving it on the corner of his desk. I was told to take two steps forward, bend over and look up out of the window... good grief this bloke would be on peado watch these days. 1st whack didn't hurt at all but the 2nd one struck in exactly the same place and did sting a bit. Left a big red stripe across the back of my legs for about a week. The only thing it changed about my behaviour was to be more careful when and where I messed about and to make sure I didn't get caught in future, which I didn't...

We had a teacher who liked to demonstrate 'the difference between champagne and real pain'

He'd grab the errant pupil's hair, right by the ear where the hair ends and the sideburn starts. He'd then pull it downwards telling you that was champagne (ie sham as in fake). He'd then pull it up which does smart, declaring 'now that's what real pain tastes like'

This thread explains why there are so many angry, argumentative types on here....

For the record I was never got the cane or even a punishment exercise at school.

Before he retired, Dad was head of school for a rather large inner city comp in Birmingham.

I used to help him when he took a load of pupils on educational trips to York and always remember being in one of the carriage compartments with some of his kids and being asked -

"Are you Mr. Pinksters son?"
"Yes"
"Is it true about the collection of canes behind the radiator in his office...?"
"Yes"

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He never had such a thing and would be horrified at the thought of caning some obnoxious scrote but loved the reputation. Worked wonders with some of the more unruly pupils.

I remember my brother got his ar5e spanked by the headmaster. On his very first day in primary school. He'll never be able to deny that one 😉

Couple of "friends" got cane (might have been belt) in secondary school. I think the most embarrassing bit was the wait outside before hand, and the deputy head was in no hurry, and made sure the thwack could be heard outside the door too.

Other school was mostly excessive use of detentions. One kid... Lee was his name... clocked up so many lunchtime detentions that they had to come to an agreement that he'd do a detty every Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime for the whole of his 3rd and 4th year. And was therefore effectively immune from getting any more minor detentions for misbehaviour!

[i]This thread explains why there are so many angry, argumentative types on here[/i]

So you think younger folk who never received corporal punishment don't argue?? Hmm...

don't recall getting the strap (Scotland) / tawse / Lochgelly in primary school, a few times at secondary school, fighting and being disruptive I think were the charge sheets - guilty as charged.

Left secondary school in 1980, so all this would be during the 70s.

As above, a pecking order of teachers who wielded the belt more than others, often in inverse proportion to the quality (?) of the punishment. Some were ineffective. some never actually wielded it that I know of or only in extremis, but you'd have to be mad/stupid/wilful to bring the punishment on yourself.

And the Latin teacher with the chalk duster, deadly - like throwing an Amercian football, luckily you learnt to duck and the poor sod behind would cop it instead.. 🙂

Just after I left school 27 of my former classmates got caught dealing drugs. My guess is that they were all caned.

I got detention so often that when I left school I knicked my detention chair, still in my room after forty years

Plenty of board rubbers thrown at me which had no effect on my behaviour.
Got the pump a couple of times, again, didn't change anything. I became more rebellious and idiotic.

Then I got the cane, that sorted me out. That bugger hurt and left marks. When mentioning this to younger people they ask me if I told my dad (so he could kick the teachers head in or sue the school or something). Errm, no, I don't fancy getting punished again thanks.

I doubt it works for everyone though and I wouldn't suggest bringing corporal punishment back.

Dunlop Green flash to the backside. Reason: Kicking water in the footbath before a swimming lesson.

Football drop kicked to the arse from 6ft. Reason: Kicking a football after (by 1 sec) the PE teacher had blown his whistle for the end of lesson.

Both instances were with different teachers.

Both teachers:
Had a history of losing it randomly with pupils.
Enjoyed humiliating pupils that had forgotten their PE kit or towel and the geeky kids that weren't very sporty.
Would be classed as psychopaths today.

Christ knows what the legacy of these nutters is on those kids that were humiliated.

Luckily there were other PE teachers who were very good, helping me excel at sport in school.

I was supposed to have the ruler (yard long wooden rule) in front of my class, I bent over, the teacher took a run up and then I side stepped, the teacher missed and then fell over!

For this I was caned on the stage in front of the whole school during assembly, tbh it didn't hurt much and was worth it for the memory of the teacher falling over 😀

[i] I was caned on the stage in front of the whole school during assembly, tbh it didn't hurt much [/i]

Sounds like ritual humiliation!

Cane and slipper (rubber sole from a plimsole).
Slipper was more painful , longer lasting. Cane was cool as punishments were administered at assemble (Tenko style) and you could smirk through the canning.
Late 70's

Primary School, Caned in HM's office, Hit with a table tennis bat, slippered on the stage at assembly, Ruler across knuckles.

Secondary
Caned, slapped and hit with a bible (!).

70/80's.

Officially the cane was an option but never remember anyone getting it - it was just there, hung on the wall. Smacked arse with hand or PE pump were more regular. Unofficially anything went - board rubber, flat head, strangulation - the usual 70's/80's stuff.

yep-- cane (twice)-had a sadistic form teacher who used to hit us on the head with the wooden blackboard rubber--other objects included a metal ruler across the back of the hand--that was a woman teacher

Schooled in South Africa - so I got the cane PLENTY. We used to pull a single thread out of our ties every time we got lashed - and I held the record for the first term of high school. Mostly the art teacher who hated me (about as much as I hated art) and I sometimes got lashed twice a lesson by him - once at the beginning for not having done any work, and once at the end for the same reason.

TBH I don't have an issue with caning as a punishment for suitable situations - though I guess you could say it didn't work on me, or at least it took me a very long time to learn my lesson! That said as I got older I did settle down and buckle down and finished up near the top of the school academically - so maybe it did work in the end.

This thread explains why there are so many angry, argumentative types on here

Funny, I don't encounter those here. Argumentative types, sure, and thank god, debate is always healthy. But angry?

Once, in the first year of primary school (so would have been 1978) for going over the fence into the nursery school next door to retrieve the ball that had gone over. All four of us who went got the cane (a drumstick actually) across the palm the as despite having asked for and obtained permission to go and fetch said ball, only one of us should actually have gone for it.

never fetched a ball again

Yes got the belt a few times. Separating your hands as the belt is whizing downwards causing the sadistic bast@rd to miss my hands and hit his shins didn't go down well. 8)

I was shocked the other day when a 15 year old kid told my missus to **** off because she called him disgusting for spitting.

Not in anyway unusual I'm afraid.

I got the cane three times I think, all for fighting. I didn't start fights but it seemed that if you won you got the cane.

Our history teacher had a reputation for throwing chalk at anyone talking during his lessons. He had an uncannily accurate throw. Never aimed at me though.

I saw one of the PE teachers administer a few harsh kicks to the arse of some pupil who'd been fooling around with a javelin, pointing it at others. The same PE teacher used to clip obnoxious kids round the ear sometimes.

Other than that, the cane had gone by the time I was in secondary school.

Had it for smoking, struck a deal with the Head for six of the best and a couple of weeks work report in exchange for him not telling my folks.

Next time I got caught he told them the lot, bastard!

I held the record for the amount of slipperings in my first year of secondary school, 57 times if I remember rightly, and was runner up for all time canings and would have won but it was banned in my final year of school.

It was a competition right?

I was just constantly in trouble, generally being bullied by fellow pupils and staff alike. Trouble was I used to it as I'd had far worse at home so didn't give a shot.

Not just school. Where I come from it's pretty normal for parents to use the cane on their children from a pretty young age.

I got it at home, and it set me up nicely for my first day at school. My mate from Nursery was trying to assert his dominance on the playground. I wasn't having any of it and smashed his head with my yellow drink bottle. I still remember him looking dumbfounded as Tang sloshed all over his head. Next thing I know, I'm outside the headies office and he gives me six of the best. Pretty much a weekly occurrence in lower school from then on. Headie was a right sadist.

Middle school was much of the same. Another headie who was a sadist. I remember being late for school once and getting caned for it. Seems hilarious that I got the cane because the traffic was rubbish along with 20 other lads on the same bus.

Got to upper school and I remember asking my mate Mohammed Ali (for that was his name) for some food before religious assembly. He always brought in a great lunch. Incensed, I stayed back with a couple of mates, ate his food and hung his bag from the flagpole in the middle of the quadrangle as punishment. Mo rats us out to the upper school headie for eating his lunch, missing assembly and the bag hanging. The headie had a fearsome reputation with the cane, but not so fearsome a rep for his English meaning my first day in upper school was also the funniest. Headie calls us up, and he's in such a rage that he screams at us to "turn the wall" instead of "turn to the wall". My mate pipes up with "sir, it's not turning!" and duly gets his bottom turned to ribbons. The two of us burst into laughter. He turns his rage on us. Must have taken about 20 "cuts" that day. Sadist chalked his canes so they'd land on the same spot each time.

Mo was a marked man after that day though. We made sure we ate his lunch every day from that day forth even if we weren't hungry.

Two years from that day and we're in our GCE year. School has a pretty bad Langur problem meaning there was a daily monkey invasion. They'd come in looking for food pretty much any time of the day. General pandemonium would occur if they entered your classroom meaning whichever teacher who was in there at the time would have to write his/her period off. The more enterprising amongst us took to leaving food on the windowsills (we're on the 1st floor) during the periods we didn't like. The monkeys turned up without fail until the day we got caught doing it during a particularly unpopular teacher's period. Teacher makes the entire class (30+ lads) march up to headies office and line up. Headie duly caned each and every one of us. He also taught us and was a brilliant teacher, though prone to fits of rage. He had a quiet word with us afterwards asking us not to play up. Funny how that worked better than the previous teacher's threats of violence.

I think I got caned pretty much every week for 11 years at school, bar a couple of years where I was a prefect. I still remember some hilarious moments. Like one headie trying to hit a lad who was over a foot taller than him. It was like watching Woody Harrelson in White Men Can't Jump, except with an apoplectic headie.

I don't think it did me any harm, though I'd certainly never cane my kids or let another adult have that control over them. Some of the teachers came to school looking to whale on the kids for whatever was wrong in their lives and that was wrong. Also, some kids lived in mortal fear of the cane. You tell them in the morning they're going to get the cane in the evening and they'd pretty much be sobbing all day and doing anything they could, like ratting mates out, or blaming everyone else but themselves for why they got the cane. Most of us just shut up and took it. For the tougher nuts amongst us getting the cane was like walking to the tuck shop.

Taken me right down memory lane that has. Not sure why the OP wanted to know about the cane, but I had a lot of laughs remembering the above things!

The Tawse or Tweeger as it was known up North, a few of us had a competition in Secondary school for who could get the most in a term. History teacher, Stretchy, was shit at givin it, however the old PE teacher was hideous with the rest pretty moderate. The look of utter terror or faces when they got sent to the old PE teacher was priceless, as was the tear stained puffy eyes of certain school hard men on there return.

Taken me right down memory lane that has. Not sure why the OP wanted to know about the cane, but I had a lot of laughs remembering the above things!

It was just something I was talking about with the wife after the Educating Yorkshire prog. Kid sees the head 37 times in a term, for bullying, falsely accusing other kids of racism etc etc. If that first visit had had the threat of the cane, how many other visits would he have made.
Clearly: "never did us any harm"...

Didn't realise it would be so interesting! I reckon I've read every post.

Plenty of times , it was painful and scary , you had to knock on the headmasters door and wait to see which light came on green for come in , amber for wait outside and red for go away and come back later . I remember somebody being so scared that they threw up while waiting outside the HMs door . I had the distinction of once being caned for blasphemy when I said to the biology teacher that a rat cut open and nailed to a piece of wood looked like Jesus . I thought that was a bit harsh but an another occasion I stayed off school for 2 weeks and when caught I gave some bullshit story about playing Ouija and it said I was going to die at school and just got sat down and talked to about the dangers of that sort of thing so that kind of balanced it up really .

4 weeks of lunch time and after school detentions for using a firework as a grenade in a school band rehearsal.

2 weeks for discovering the school networks master password 'frodo' purely by accident. I passed it on to the rest of the school causing chaos.

2 weeks for breaking a bullies arm.

1 week for replacing the german teachers office sign with a carved wooden sign from woodwork that read 'Arbeit macht frei'.

1 week of suspension because the queen was visiting.

1 week for alcohol and pornography being found in our dorm room on a trip.

History teacher

Mine gave me an after school detention for bad handwriting FFS. I'd spacked my wrist in PE and couldn't even hold a pen or pencil, and he was aware that I had to write left handed for 2 weeks.

But did find enough strength that day to rip up the detty form and tell him to shove it where the sun don't shine. Fortunately our school had stopped using the cane about then too.

I was "advised" not to choose History on my O-level options. I called that a Result!

Yes on several occasions. Much better than an hours detention. In an all boys school with a rough catchment area it would have been madness not to have it. When it was stopped school became much scarier.

I'm glad to hear i'm not the only one to get the belt (scotland), schooled from 1977 to 1989 in 5 different rural primary schools (Argyllshire/Galloway) and 3 or 4 high schools (same as previous) due to moving about wi my folks for my dads work, being the new kid in each school usually involved the school bully chancing his luck within the first week which was a daft mistake on his part as i had a tendency to use whatever i had to hand or what was near enough to use effectively, whether that be a compass, chair, shinty stick, bin lid, fork (belt for all five 😀 ), or good old fashioned fists/feet and the tasmanian devil routine till someone dragged me off them. I've never started a fight in my life and would rather walk the other way so if someone came up to me and punched me or pushed me and continued to harass me then i considered them fair game for whatever happened afterwards and i knew i'd get the belt but the belt wasn't as bad or painful as it's made out to be, getting a kicking from the school bully was far worse as it would involve blood and a baying crowd crying for more so i always made sure to knock them down with whatever i had to hand and make sure they stayed down.

My parents were often called into the school but as my dad worked on the fishing boats or in the forestry at the time and we always stayed in the middle of nowhere it was a non show and prob just as well for the headmaster involved. They're was only one enforced rule from my parents and that was tell the truth, so if i said i didn't start the fight i was believed and that was the end of it.

edit : Just remembered i got 12 of the belt in front of the whole school at morning assembly for hitting an older P7 boy (i was 10/P6 at the time) in the face with the "school cricket bat" that hung up in the entrance hallway, i broke most of his front teeth but he had been waiting for me every day that week to steal my can of juice, crisps and biscuit in my lunchbox so i must have decided i'd had enough, also got suspended for a long time which was fantastic as i got to go out the fishing boat for a 10 day trip wi my dad - result!.

Belt in Scotland. I forget the reason why but suspect it was trivial as i was about 4 at the time
WhoTF could take a belt to a four year old?

I was spanked by hand on my bare arse by a maths teacher.

Yes, I know he probably acting without authority and probably with his own motives...

Yeap ... got them both at school and at home.

Normal routine really so no big deal as I have thick hide. No psychological damage whatsoever and perfectly normal.

However, if no cane was applied I would have been the king of the village and thanks to my mum the world is slightly peaceful. 😈

Yup, Glasgow c early 70's. The belt...... or Lash as it was known.

First Secondary School I went too was moderately hard (pupils and Teachers ;-)and it was meated out with astonishing regularity. Usual tactic for Red Card type behaviour was to send the errant pupil to the Head of the Dept or Depute Heid - invariably all big bastards who put absolutely everything into it. Fighting, smoking etc etc would result in all the offenders being 'publicly Lashed' one by one. Always 6 with a swopping of hands at 3. Couple of these guys specialised in doing it @ 90 degrees - felt like you'd had your fingers chopped off. Best you could hope for was a clean strike i.e not up the inner forearms.

Never, ever heard of 12 being dished out at one sitting but I have had 12 in one day. Black and blue for weeks.

Funny thinking back about it now. Changed days...

No but probably should have! woodwork teacher always had a yard of 1/2" dowel in his hand and a rollup in his teeth never any bother in his lessons, got slippered dunlop green flash at junior for something i didnt do also hit with ruler by mr webb but the shatterproof ruler shattered which sort of broke the spell... bloody swots offerred him a wooden ruler to use 😯 It wont help now tho cos id get sacked and sued well some kids know the rules and ask 'if i cut my finger off on that saw can i sue you?' Ok then yawn.. can you get sued for kids being dumb enough to do that after being told to stop cutting if it hurts?

Yes. Cane for anything, even throwing a bit of screwed up paper.
Ruler on palms of hands or back of legs. Even not singing well enough in music lessons would earn a beating.
Blackboard eraser often thrown at pupils heads.
Worst was being beaten up by an English teacher for beating him at badminton in front of a girl we think he was ****ing.
School was......I'd love to beat the living daylights out of some of those sadists.
Edit. Was once smacked right in the face for cheating in school cross country trials and made to run it again. I'd actually beaten everyone hands down and went on to run for the county.

No I didn't get the cane but I did get someone else the cane. A bully who was trying to lift one of my girlfriend mates skirt up when she was just chillin with mates at the tennis courts, her mate shouted, she shouted, I saw what was happening and went over an hit him so hard I knocked him out. Later the Head called me in, told him what happened, he thanked me for standing up for the girl, bully got both cane and kicked out of school.
I hated him, we all hated him, best thing for him I reckon,

I spotted a profile on facebark about 6 years ago (linked by an old mate) geeeeze what a looser.

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Sheesh that detention malarky sounds like a right thrashing.
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