“My school punishment” – 2
More anecdotes from the Indian-based forum covered here recently:
Anbu: I have seen many girls being canned for growing nails and applying nail polish. What are your experiences about it?
Rehan: I am in class X [and] in a co-ed school. In my school the teachers however make no discrimination between boys and girls in respect of corporal punishments. Caning is common in our school and girls get the cane as hard as boys and no leniency is shown to them.
Ysodhara: I have so many punishments experiences. When I was in grade 10 I went to school late. I got caught by our section head and he questioned me. I had no answer to give him. Actually I couldn’t lie. So he gave me 5 strokes with his large cane and ordered to me to kneel down on the sand and under the heavy sun until he allowed to stand. So I did so. I had to wait with such pain for two hours. He had forgotten about me. Fortunately when he walking he saw me and allowed me to go to my class. When I go to the class my class teacher also gave me 5 strokes for late participating.
Richa: I am 15. I’ve never been punished in school. But I am caned at home. I think this helps me to be a better person. But I am glad its not something that happens at school.
Deepa: In my school we have to go to the principal and we get spanked with a belt…it REALLY hurts…and we get a note stating what we did and we get sent home to be punished as well…
Jisha: In my home my Daddy was very strict. He used to cane me for my mistakes. He had kept a thin cane in our home from my younger age. He often slashed it over my thighs upto my 12 standards. He never exceeds the number of strokes more than two. After each punishment he usually comes to me and consoles me. So I never felt angry upon him. After the age of 17 years he never punished me.
Carla: I studied upto my 12 class in a girls convent boarding school as my parents were working abroad. Once I went for a movie along with my friends. Our matron sister came to know it. At night she called us induvidually. When I went to her office she adviced me 10 minutes. Then she took the cane and gave me three strokes upon my thighs. I still remember the pain when the cane rounded upon over my inner thighs. I cannot explain the pain which I have experienced. She gave a pause between the slashes and asked me each time whether I will repeat it again. I said no and jumped up and down. I could not sit propery for one week
