Having the stick/dap in school

[NYCBlue]

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I've never had a teacher that gave the dap that didn't give me the dap. Bunch of rugby ***** from Cyncoed. Racist, sexist bullies. It never bothered me at the time. But looking back, I find it quite shocking how unfit they were to be educators.

[poc]

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We had plain clothes nuns towards the end of my time in Mostyn, but the ones before that, in their all black habits, were amongst the most violent people I've met. They'd come at you like a stealth bomber, wimple billowing in their rage, and whack you across the knuckles with the side of the ruler. Mr Rooney the woodwork teacher had a wooden bat labelled 'Central Heating' which he'd whack you across the arse with. I got sent to the headmaster about 30 minutes after my Mum had left; she'd been summoned to hear about my misbehaviour, boy did I get thrashed. It was bad, because kids from a nearby class were later asking me what I'd done to deserve that.

sounds like you came across sister mary michael and her mate

[poc]

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that happened quite often, our Geography teacher was also like a Jack forward, 20 shots, 1 on target

[light up the darkness]

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I think I got away with a fair bit in school because I was considered a “good boy” - I was far from the worst behaved, but definitely not among the best. The irony is that I was blameless when I was caned for the only time.

It was on the day England played Romania in the 1970 World Cup and a group of about six of us were having a kick about during the lunch break. We were using a full size plastic ball and one of my mates miskicked it on to the window of the headmaster’s room.

Cantonian’s headmaster was “Motho” Davies who had been there for years and had a fearsome reputation, so we feared the worst when he opened the window and told us to come to his room - it was a measure of how much he was feared that none of us thought to run away as soon as the ball hit the window or that we would take a “wrong turn” on the way to his office.

We were quaking in our boots while we waited outside his room, but when we called in, he surprised us by asking if we were going to watch the game later on and we proceeded to talk about football for a few minutes (that was a surprise as well because he was thought of very much as a rugby man). We thought we were going to get away with it, but then reached for his cane and asked us who had kicked the ball against the window, none of us answered and so he proceeded to whack all of us on the backside once.

It didn’t hurt anywhere as much as I expected it to and down the years, I wondered if Motho’s heart was in it - he retired a couple of years later and maybe he was tired of doling out the canings (he certainly had administered plenty of them down the years).

When he was younger Motho was a very enthusiastic thrasher. Hand or arse he didn’t care. He went for it like it was some form of gold medal attempt.
Canton High School for Boys 1964-69. Semper sursum.

In 4th form in one term I was beaten by him on five separate occasions. He kept promising me that he would teach me something (aside from Poetry and Latin)

How to endure pain has been a very valuable life lesson that has stayed with me over the years

[elytillidie]

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sounds like you came across sister mary michael and her mate

That was one of the thugs; done by a nun eh?

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Do you remember Tex the automechanic teacher walking around the play ground tapping a steel pipe , I liked Mr Webb PE Teacher and his murder ball moments .

That surely has to be Graham Webb? He used to be our PE teacher at Glantaf, before it changed to a Welsh school.
He was a good 'un - still holds the Welsh triple jump record I believe.

[Moodybluebird]

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That surely has to be Graham Webb? He used to be our PE teacher at Glantaf, before it changed to a Welsh school.
He was a good 'un - still holds the Welsh triple jump record I believe.

Spider was my favourite teacher at Llanrumney. I deliberately fouled him once whilst playing football. He waiting for me to get the ball again and whacked me in retaliation but did it with a smile on his face. I thought he was great and yes I think he was a triple jumper.

[Moodybluebird]

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That surely has to be Graham Webb? He used to be our PE teacher at Glantaf, before it changed to a Welsh school.
He was a good 'un - still holds the Welsh triple jump record I believe.

Just found out a lot more about him. He's still on the Cardiff Athletics committee, has just successfully undergone a kidney transplant and been voted their Hero of the Month for Feb 2021. There's a pic of him too.

He represented Wales in the triple jump at the 1970 Commonwealth Games and was the Wales under-17 record holder for 26 years.

[poc]

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That was one of the thugs; done by a nun eh?

the pair were brutalthink it was an underlying sex fantasy though

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Just found out a lot more about him. He's still on the Cardiff Athletics committee, has just successfully undergone a kidney transplant and been voted their Hero of the Month for Feb 2021. There's a pic of him too.

He represented Wales in the triple jump at the 1970 Commonwealth Games and was the Wales under-17 record holder for 26 years.

He was at our school in the early/mid seventies, he used to wear his Wales representative tracksuit all the time while taking PE lessons.

As I said, he was a decent guy and good fun.

[Rjk]

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I missed out on this kind of thing happening by a few years, but there were teachers still teaching who had doled out this kind of punishment.

nowadays I can't even imagine it. if any teacher whacked one of my kids with a stick I'd be straight up the school to kick their arse.
I don't think school kids are any worse behaved these days despite this kind of punishment being taken away, in my experience kids today are a lot more polite and sociable than I ever was as a grumpy teenager.

[splott parker]

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the pair were brutalthink it was an underlying sex fantasy though

Well you did say that you came over them, you’d have got in terrible trouble for wanking over a nun in Lady Mary and rightly so in my opinion

[Stanmore Bluebird]

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As the corporal punishment pain was so agonising; why did so many of you transgress so many times? I don’t get it as would have thought that once would have been more than enough.

[alfie]

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I missed out on this kind of thing happening by a few years, but there were teachers still teaching who had doled out this kind of punishment.

nowadays I can't even imagine it. if any teacher whacked one of my kids with a stick I'd be straight up the school to kick their arse.
I don't think school kids are any worse behaved these days despite this kind of punishment being taken away, in my experience kids today are a lot more polite and sociable than I ever was as a grumpy teenager.

You a having a laugh about kids being polite these days. I got on a bus when my van broke down which was crowded and there were eldely women standing. Do you think they would get up and offer them their seat,fat chance. When i was young if you were not polite to grown ups you had a leathering with a belt. People might say that is wrong but if my old man was still alive today i'd shake him by the hand for it. It taught me manners. As a teacher you can comment as you see them everyday,i can only comment on what i see.

[Moodybluebird]

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As the corporal punishment pain was so agonising; why did so many of you transgress so many times? I don’t get it as would have thought that once would have been more than enough.

If it was the same 'offence' committed each time you would have a point but it wasn't. There could be a number of reasons why corporal punishment was given. Even well behaved kids (and I consider myself to have been one) were sometimes in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up getting the stick. And, as has been pointed out by many on here, some of the teachers were psycho and liked nothing better than to live up to their reputations.

If corporal punishment was outlawed by the time you went to school, you should consider yourself lucky. Very few of us were badly behaved (except Tuerto, who apparently was a very naughty boy !) but that didn't prevent us facing the dreaded cane.