[timwilky]

Well based on another thread about Asbo/Birch and a few coming forward to say it never did me any harm. who was battered in submission/compliance, who was simply battered and refused to conform? and who was subjected to a discussion about their issues and problems?

My early years was a brutal regime where nuns ruled the roost. One sadistic bitch would use a 3' rule on the back of the knuckle, thin edge for boys, flat edge for girls. We 6 year old lived in fear of her. Years later my mother said she never knew we had been beaten by her. We were forced to eat disgusting food, one time somebody threw theirs on the floor and it was decided it must have been me. I was forced to eat it off the floor like a dog being told to think about the starving babies in Africa

At secondary school a public flogging in front of the school was regularly administered. My misdemeanour's were never that serious in the early years to warrant the assembly caning. So got private ones yes bent over on the backside. but the git would always get a few low ones in on the backs of the legs that would invariably bleed.

I was invited to leave when I told my head of year that if he tried to use that thing (cane) on me I would shove it up his ****. As the whole form took that attitude there was a governors inquiry where it was decided that senior pupils would no longer be caned, we were allowed back to resit our public examines.

Caning didn't change my attitude, just made me more resentful. But I despair for modern teachers who have no sanction for unruly pupils.