It’s a real school cane,” I went on, hoping to distract him from the desk with detail about the cane. And he told me that the aim of the flogging had been to make me sorry for what I had done wrong, and that if it hadn’t made me want to apologise to him for that when I was given the opportunity then the caning had obviously not been hard enough. And he told me to take off my blazer and lay it over his desk, so I did – my hands were really shaking – and then to walk round and stand facing the back of the chair.

I could just feel all these eyes staring at me, knowing that my friends were out there, and my teachers, and all the other pupils, and it just made the whole thing feel so public, and I was so ashamed.

I mean, I hadn’t done anything really bad, but when he listed things like that it made me feel like I was a criminal or something. United States: TV news report on school CP, June 2011: Developments in the continuing dispute over paddling at St Augustine High School, New Orleans. Dr Hopkins’ office was in the Main Building, the original school building before the additional blocks and boarding houses were built. For a couple of years, VI Formers had been permitted to dispense with the Blazer, and wear tights rather than socks, and in some instances shorter skirts were creeping in, except on special occasions, so Karen checked she had everything she needed.

Once in my room I commented that she seemed a lot friendlier on the way back than she had on the way there. It became so that I was caned for really trivial things and she always gave me a lot of strokes, more I think than I really deserved.Members of a commando unit in the Malaysian army get an unofficial on-the-spot caning in front of their comrades. During World War II after a French village was recaptured by the the Allies, the inhabitants of that village rounded up some of the woman who had been to friendly with the german soldiers, took them to a barn. Colombia: A youth gets a public whipping on his legs as part of a tribal community punishment for murder (2008). Full-length version of a 10-stroke caning for which we previously had only an "edited highlights" version.

Australia: TV news report (July 2014) about a government education expert who caused controversy by saying he supported CP in schools.

TV crew visits a school district in North Carolina with the most paddlings in the state, but also one of the lowest levels of violent incidents. Although I did not dare sleep on duty after that I still made other mistakes and Helen did not help me cover them up as much as she had before. It was a training base used mainly for women recruits fresh out of basic who had to do various short courses before they could get their posting. It was quite heavy and an awkward shape and I struggled as I tried to manoeuvre it through the narrow passage between the furniture and out to the door. By Pat Greenham The first part of this story is based on an incident that took place in the early seventies.

And I could feel tears beginning to well up, and I could feel how sore my thighs were from where he had hit me. United Kingdom: TV news item about the European Court of Human Rights ruling in the Scottish tawse case (1982). Trying to get the final stragglers out of the building for eight o’clock was a challenge sometimes, but I could normally be home not long after eight-thirty.Take the cane, go up to your room, and have a good think about whether you want six weeks’ grounding or six of the best with the rod.