First Term at Lexington Manor: a spanked schoolgirl novella

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In a different part of Peru, three teen boys are tried and whipped by a village court for stealing. Five clips from Texas, four of them covering a controversy about male administrators spanking girls, the other from a district where paddling is alive and well and everybody is happy.

United States: Two spanking machines. Part of our feature The Spanking Machine: A Resilient Myth in Popular Culture.United States: PBS TV interview (2011) (6 minutes) with Peter Moskos, who discusses his book advocating flogging as an optional replacement for imprisonment in certain cases. Time to leave them, until the next time…Mummy is downstairs, putting the slipper away, until next time. She knows this will not be the last time it will be used, it will probably have just been the first of many. The journey to the end of the day was like some heroic trek in a fantasy novel. Long and arduous. The lunch time collection of the ‘death sentence’ sent a cold shiver to her tummy. The words left the slip and ran amok in her brain. There before her the words threatened her bottom.

United States: Interview with a Memphis teacher, May 2007, who says that the abolition of corporal punishment has failed. Have you a guilty conscience?’ Have you a need? An itch that needs to be scratched?’ Would physical chastisement help?’ My mother was a schoolmistress in a small village primary school in Scotland in the 1950s, when the tawse was considered a piece of equipment essential in the maintenance of classroom discipline. It was not surprising, therefore, that she was an enthusiastic practitioner of corporal punishment not only in school, but also in the home.

It was not a school as you know them today. It was for girls and young women, many of them over twenty. It taught music and art, as well as all the usual subjects. But it also taught deportment and manners. In other words it taught the Victorian young lady how to behave. In particular a certain type of young lady. A more general piece about paddling in certain East Texas school districts, and what people think about it.