Jo, My school days would have overlapped with your parents, albeit in Ireland.
I had cousins in England( near Wolverhampton) and also in Scotland ( near Paisley). We would visit every couple of years and they would come to us in the years in between. My English cousins , both girls, confirmed that their school did have caning. But they couldn't described it exactly as they had never witnessed it. It seems to have been relatively infrequent and was administered in the head's office, never in the classroom. The caning was on the clothed bottom ( trousers for boys , skirts for girls)
In Scotland, the practice was similar to Ireland. All teachers used CP . It was delivered in the classroom, was an almost daily occurrence, and was of course witnessed by all. It was usually delivered on the hand with a strap. You were only sent to the principal/head teacher for some thing serious or for being regularly in trouble. Only then were you likely to receive the punishment on the bottom ( clothed).
In contrast to the school, at home, spanking seemed to be more common with my cousins in England. Of course, this was tonly my experience so difficult to tell how accurate my impressions were. |