i never found, nor those in later years tell me that i have caned, that it becomes easier to take after the first caning. They were a few years older than us and use the cane for serious offences (leaving the school without permission, not doing school works, smoking, etc.

Experienced insiders report that, while putting the kidney protection in place, the DM will check that the boy's back pocket is empty and that he is not wearing any extra underwear or other "padding" underneath his trousers. Secondary 4 contains students who turn 16 during the year, except those who have been "retained" (held back for a year), who will turn 17. The first student makes a tremendous fuss, jumping about, yelling and clutching her behind after each stroke, of which she gets about six in all. I go back regularly to say hello, and thank them for inspiring a desire to learn, and for giving me the confidence to try at anything. The picture on the left (not from this video clip; it is a bit of horseplay going on in the same class while the teacher is out) gives a better idea of the upper secondary boys' uniform at this school: white short-sleeved shirt with lightweight grey trousers.You can read more about the purposes for which we and our partners use cookies and manage your cookie settings by visiting our Cookie Policy. According to one source, 40 high-school girls were thus punished altogether, for not taking part in Teacher's Day. For the first caning you have the fear of the unknown but on a repeat caning you know how much it is going to hurt before the first stroke lands. This precaution is more necessary than it used to be, given today's fashion for loose or baggy clothing (a trend to which even school uniforms have succumbed) and sagging waistbands.

I knew if he did cane us the pain would be worse for me as I would at least hear, if not see, eleven others getting it before it was my turn. The perceived advantages of this were to avoid bothering the teaching staff with minor disciplinary matters, promptness of punishment, and more effective chastisement, as the impact would be better known in the culprit's immediate peer group. Under the Approved School Rules 1933, girls under 15 could be caned only on the hands; girls of 15 and over were not to be given caning at all. In some schools, corporal punishment was administered solely by the headmaster, while in others the task was delegated to other teachers. There is great pressure from their peers to do so but many, unfortunately at some personal cost, resist it and behave properly.

Slowly I turned the water colder and colder and let it run over my sore cheeks to try and numb them. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. A 60-year-old Christian woman was caned yesterday (April 12) in Indonesia’s Banda Aceh province—for breaking rules aimed at Muslims. We don’t want to raise the impression that Islamic law in Aceh infringes on the rights of non-Muslims… It doesn’t [force] sharia law on non-Muslims because they are free to observe their own faiths and beliefs.

One of the desks from the front row is being used, which has been vacated by its occupant for the purpose. Rather, the discipline session is usually a special event, arranged in advance, decided upon by the school's senior management (often in consultation with the boy's parents) for a more serious offence committed outside the classroom, such as smoking, truancy, gambling, fighting, lying, bullying or vandalism. He will have felt well and truly "spanked", and clearly embarrassed too (an intended part of the punishment), but no more than that. She's got lots of kids, it's not easy and she may take the line of less resistance and let the kids roam. I once spent a full year on detention but that was for 'minor ' incidents, such as farting in class etc.And if my parents found out that I had been subject to corporal punishment I would have probably been grounded for a month or so. When Goram came out his pyjama trousers were partly down and in spite of his hands could see two vivid red lines across the top of his white bottom. At the time I thought it was harsh being new and not spared, but after getting it, knew it would have been unfair and resented by the others.

They make everybody else's life absolutely miserable for years until they graduate to drugs and Nightclubs and reach the estate of adulthood themselves.I lay in bed with my hands down my pyjama trousers holding my little bottom thinking about how much the cane was going to hurt on it. He receives two hard strokes of the cane across the seat of his school uniform trousers as he bends across a desk.