Satirical magazine Private Eye writes this week about Bedgebury School. It notes that governors have just written to parents with “the shock announcement of the imminent closure of this 80-year-old day/boarding girls’ school set in 200 acres of Kentish parkland.”.
The school, with over 300 students, occupies a “six-storey ‘French chateau with Versailles-style gardens”, surrounded by “rolling pastures, lakes and forests”. Its reputation “was founded on its ability to turn less able girls into high achievers.”
Naturally, I’m picturing the lasses that must have been caught ‘out of bounds’ over the years, and their painful consequential punishments. I’m day-dreaming about the upper floors of the mansion full of dormitories, patrolled by strict masters, home to tearful girls lying face down on their beds.
And I’m imaging a world in which one of the current batch of young ladies would earn the dubious distinction of being the very last to be taken into the Head’s office for a caning: the final entry on the final page of a punishment book documenting the shameful history of so many miscreants from the past eight decades.
Actually, I wonder if they did ever use corporal punishment at Bedgebury? I must do some research on “Friends Reunited”, that wonderful resource for the scholarly spanko. And I wonder if the school might dispose of its assets – might I put in an early bid for any canes, or for the dusty leaher-bound punishment books from olden times, or even a few desks?!
Abel,
i think you need to get Haron into her uniform knee high socks and all and take her into the library for some one to one reveiwing of her behaviuor resulting in you putting her over chair and attending thouroughly to her backside.I definately think any questioning of your reasons to do this should be delt with equally severely.Perhaps even lines to write after a few stripes to her hands for her to contemplate and you to enjoy.
I like the way your mind works, Brenda
Mmmm, I’ve been reading a few accounts lately of hand-strappings that made it too painful for students to continue writing.
Brenda, you’ve sparked my imagination: suppose Haron were given a set of lines to complete in detention, and told that she would be caned if she didn’t finish them on time. And just suppose that in the middle of detention, her hands were to be tawsed. Hard.
I like this train of thought…. 😉
After receiving a total of 8 strokes on each palm with a heavy tawse last February, I can prettyconfidently attest to the fact one *can* write after a severe hand tawsing — at least within 5 – 10 minutes.
It’s not comfortable though. =8-0 And bruises on the palms felt very exciting.
(I didn’t have lines to write, but I tested it anyway.)
Don’t look at me… I wasn’t the one who stopped. :-b (Though I suspect I was as near to my limits as I’ve ever been.)
Maybe the tawser in question was worried we were about to squick the room. I’d ask him, but you live closer.
It was honestly one of the very best scenes I’ve ever been part of — maybe because of a rather large audience which always makes being brave easier for me. My one regret was that I wasn’t wearing my school boy or girl uniform.
OMG!! My two best freinds went to bedgebury, I cant belive that it’s closing! tahts so sad, its so beutiful! And i wouldn’t wnat to put a hole in you’re fantasys, but i dont remember any spankings happening there.. but then my freinds might not have metioned it!