Teachers

When I was really young, about five years old, I attended kindergarten at my neighbourhood public school. Now, I’m only 22 so it wasn’t like in the 50s or anything, … Read more

When I was at school, I was a good boy and rarely got into any kind of trouble. One day, however, I was playing with my friend David and girlfriend … Read more

When I was in the second grade, it was fairly common for a child to be paddled for wrongdoing. Well, one time I lied to a teacher and she found … Read more

I started to attend a local infants school, at the age of five, in 1951. I was generally well behaved but was occasionally shouted at for not paying attention. I … Read more

In the 1946-47 school year, going to the city schools in the Upper South, my second grade teacher was Ms Lucille, who happened to be an old high school chum … Read more

When I was a kid (in the early 60s), I got some occasional tastes of maternal discipline. They were invariably the traditional over-the-knee spankings on the seat of the pants. … Read more

When I was 11 years old I moved to a new school. My new teacher was called Miss Cawthorne. She was a tall, well-dressed lady who smelled sweetly of violets … Read more

My story begins in elementary school in the north east of the US. My parents weren’t much for handing out punishments and spankings were very rare. My third grade teacher … Read more

All of my school life, I was an enthusiastic and bright student. I loved and respected my teachers, and felt respected and cared for by them as well. I was … Read more

I grew up in the southeastern United States in the 60s and 70s. My math-science teacher in seventh grade was a young and attractive woman named Mrs Nielson. One day … Read more

In seventh grade, my friend Kelly and I had PE together. Neither of us was the atheletic type, so it was somewhat torture to us. We were normally very well … Read more

Spankings were a part of my upbringing from my first memories as a little girl until I graduated from high school. Both at home and at the private school I … Read more

As a Catholic schoolgirl of the 50s, I was introduced to Sister Rose and the yardstick in seventh grade. The first day of the school year, Sister Rose left us … Read more

Growing up in rural Carolina in the 1970s meant a taste of ‘paddle medicine’ from the teacher for misbehaviour. Somehow my friend Chad and I had survived six years without … Read more

In September, I started grade one at Alexandra School. I had a big crush on my teacher, Miss Thompson, and I worked hard to be first in her class, but … Read more

In my junior school in the late 50s, corporal punishment was in use for various offences, by all the teachers, but the most feared punishment was to be sent to … Read more

It happened in school. And it changed my life entirely. The teacher came into the class and she was furious. The exercise showed clearly that quite a few fellows hadn’t … Read more

In the 1970s, I attended a boys grammar school in the south-east of England. We had all the traditions of such schools – uniform, homework, the use of surnames only … Read more

I was in 6th grade. The private school I went to in the late 50s believed in and practiced corporal punishment. It was what my parents signed up for. This … Read more

When I was at school in Wellington, New Zealand, in the 1960s, the great shame for us boys was having other people see our underpants. Girls, of course, were fair … Read more

When I was about 10, we used to have one afternoon where our form teacher would read stories to us. We would all sit around her – some on the … Read more

Although it was long ago, I still remember my fourth grade teacher, Mrs Redman. She was just out of college and the most beautiful teacher in the school. I was … Read more

I attended a small private high school in the south during the 70s where corporal punishment was the preferred method of dealing with unruly students. Somehow I managed to avoid … Read more

I went to school in England in the early 1960s, at a time when corporal punishment was very common. I was beaten quite frequently when at secondary school, mostly on … Read more

I attended a boys’ grammar school in the North of England in the 1960s. Corporal punishment was widely used. Most of the teachers used the slipper, while the headmaster and … Read more