I’ve just unearthed a fascinating thread about the slipper on a discussion board. Jo describes the punishment procedure when her school Deputy Head administered slipperings:

Once informed you were to receive 6 of the slipper you had to change into your P.E. shorts (no pants) then touch your toes, then he always took his jacket off which seemed to take forever, he would then touch your bottom with the slipper to take aim, WHACK the first stroke landed instantly bringing tears to your eyes, after 3 you could not talk, after 6 your head would spin! after you had stopped gasping you had to thank him! For many one visit was all that was needed, it was far worse than 6 of the cane administered on the hands.

Haron’s glaring in my direction, as if daring me to experiment with Jo’s hypothesis. Six with the cane on her hands then six with the slipper on her backside. Measuring which was more effective. Publishing the results for our readers’ delectation.

Jane, meanwhile, was educated twenty-odd years later when corporal punishment “hadn’t quite gone out of style”.

I remember one case where a girl in the year above me definitely got the slipper - she vandalised a bike belonging to another girl, damaging the brakes on purpose so badly that the girl came off her bike on the way home…

It was deemed to be such a serious offence that the whole school was told about what she had done at school assembly and how she was punished (no details of course, just “she got the slipper”) - she was still suspended while we were told what had happened, so at least she was spared the embarrassment of that Assembly.

Plimsoll or slipper, I wonder?

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