What type of punishments did you get at school

[tel]

I have fond memories of my old school. Catholic, half the staff were priests, the masters were a mix of eccentric and comic.
Punishements were mainly the strap (barbers strop), cane or slipper. Occasionally a cross country run, sometimes detention, including saturdays.
There were some wierd & wonderful things that happened at that school and some I have some fantastic memories of it.
This is an excerpt from the Friends Reunited site and is one of the "tamer" instances.

Question/comment -
Is it my imagination or did Fr. XXXXXX have a dreadful punishment, which he called “The Biscuit Tin”? I remember hearing that it involved having to crawl round the rugby pitch a few times whilst wearing women’s clothes, which he kept in a biscuit tin under his bed. Have I dreamt this or did it really happen? Did anyone out there actually suffer this fate? Please let us know!

Reply -
The Biscuit Tin? Yes, quite true. The ritual went thus: the guilty party was required to run around the playing field without trousers, during lunch break (to ensure maximum audience); every so many paces, he would stop, beat the tin, and cry "Mama" in a loud voice.

[Snoopy]

Well! 

That explains a lot.

[Nick]

Hey, this is a rival thread  . But then again, those Catholics take some beating (snigger)

ANd what is the punishment for spelling punishment wrongly? 

[Darwins Selection]

For minor misdemeanours, we were deprived of fagging services for a period of time.

[Snoopy]

At Senior School:
Cane ~ 3 or 6 strokes across the hand could be and were delivered by any master at their whim. Few explanations were ever given ~ just "Hold out your hand"
6 to 12 strokes of the cane could and were delivered across the arse by the Head, usually in front of the assembled school. The head used to put on an old fashioned wicket keepers glove to protect his hand when he wielded the cane. Prior to the punishment he would say "Assume the position" and you bent to touch your toes. He would then tell the assembled school what your crime was before whacking you with all his might.
Wooden Rule ~ Used by one master in particular who liked to bring the edge of the ruler down across the back of your fingers~ I got 6 off the head for grabbing the ruler and belting the sadistic little b@st@rd with it but it was never used on another boy after that and the master left at the end of the term.

At Junior School the weapons of choice were:
Cane ~ Head and deputy head
"Slipper" (actually a size ten plimsoll) .... some masters had left shoes, some had right, so I assume they bought half a dozen pairs and shared them round.
One master in particular was a deadly shot with the nearest piece of chalk or blackboard eraser.

At all levels:
Sarcasm ~ the worst of all weapons .... used liberally in those days.

[Nick]

For minor misdemeanours, we were deprived of fagging services for a period of time.

Were you at school in California?

[Nick]

At Senior School:
Cane ~ 3 or 6 strokes across the hand could be and were delivered by any master at their whim. Few explanations were ever given ~ just "Hold out your hand"
6 to 12 strokes of the cane could and were delivered across the arse by the Head, usually in front of the assembled school. The head used to put on an old fashioned wicket keepers glove to protect his hand when he wielded the cane. Prior to the punishment he would say "Assume the position" and you bent to touch your toes. He would then tell the assembled school what your crime was before whacking you with all his might.
Wooden Rule ~ Used by one master in particular who liked to bring the edge of the ruler down across the back of your fingers~ I got 6 off the head for grabbing the ruler and belting the sadistic little b@st@rd with it but it was never used on another boy after that and the master left at the end of the term.

At Junior School the weapons of choice were:
Cane ~ Head and deputy head
"Slipper" (actually a size ten plimsoll) .... some masters had left shoes, some had right, so I assume they bought half a dozen pairs and shared them round.
One master in particular was a deadly shot with the nearest piece of chalk or blackboard eraser.

At all levels:
Sarcasm ~ the worst of all weapons .... used liberally in those days.

I was daily whacked with a gym shoe for a year when 7. It was for smudging my handwriting practice. Bastard ought to have conceded I was left handed and let me use a pencil 

[Snoopy]

For minor misdemeanours, we were deprived of fagging services for a period of time.

Were you at school in California?

Don't show your ignorance Nick ~ we are in the presence of Minor Royalty here.

Fancy having to make one's own toast and toss yourself orf.

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

I had a really pervy RK teacher.   This was in the mid 70s when the new fangled scrolling green boards arrived.  He would make you, well, not you obviously, me, stand facing the board, on tiptoe with my arms stretched up scroll the metal chalk holder up to the level of my fingertips and make me stand like that for periods of time.  He made me do this when I was 14 and had refused to do the dance of the 7 veils.  The fact that I was a pubescent girl and mini  skirts were in had nothing to do with it, I'm sure.

[Nick]

I don't quite follow that. Can you demonstrate and post the result on You TUbe please? 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

At Senior School:
Cane ~ 3 or 6 strokes across the hand could be and were delivered by any master at their whim. Few explanations were ever given ~ just "Hold out your hand"
6 to 12 strokes of the cane could and were delivered across the arse by the Head, usually in front of the assembled school. The head used to put on an old fashioned wicket keepers glove to protect his hand when he wielded the cane. Prior to the punishment he would say "Assume the position" and you bent to touch your toes. He would then tell the assembled school what your crime was before whacking you with all his might.
Wooden Rule ~ Used by one master in particular who liked to bring the edge of the ruler down across the back of your fingers~ I got 6 off the head for grabbing the ruler and belting the sadistic little b@st@rd with it but it was never used on another boy after that and the master left at the end of the term.

At Junior School the weapons of choice were:
Cane ~ Head and deputy head
"Slipper" (actually a size ten plimsoll) .... some masters had left shoes, some had right, so I assume they bought half a dozen pairs and shared them round.
One master in particular was a deadly shot with the nearest piece of chalk or blackboard eraser.

At all levels:
Sarcasm ~ the worst of all weapons .... used liberally in those days.

I was daily whacked with a gym shoe for a year when 7. It was for smudging my handwriting practice. Bastard ought to have conceded I was left handed and let me use a pencil 

I too am left handed und at Primary school would get into trouble for not being able to write in a straight line and for smudging.   Not being able to cut things out properly too.

[Nick]

Many of us here are left handed

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

I don't quite follow that. Can you demonstrate and post the result on You TUbe please? 

Of course I can.

[Snoopy]

My children don't believe this is how school used to be.


The THW was enraged when she was told not to wear a particular colour nail varnish to school ... she was 13 at the time.

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Many of us here are left handed

It reveals our artistic side, our rapier wit and humour I believe.