Memories: 14 cuts in one day
‘In my first day at boarding school I was caned almost every day,’ journalist Michael Cobden wrote in 1980. ‘We were caned for talking after lights-out, for running in the quadrangle, for jumping down steps, for having dirty shoes, for untidiness, bad manners, lateness and insubordination.’ Prefects did most of the caning.
As published in the Kingston
Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ontario, Canada), 23 April 1980.
Picture credit: The Magnet.
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At our boarding school, being swished pretty much every day with whippy junior canes, we were never without striped bottoms.
ReplyDeleteAny supposed rules violation, however trivial would merit six of the best, so being late from morning breaktime meant my first dose of the day.
The second for lack of attention in class, with the third being an untidy dorm, whereby all six of us got the regulatory six of the best across pyjama seats.
The memories of the intense sting from those and other canings, always sends a not unpleasant tingle and shiver to my backside!