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Original poster

Smacking at school 80s

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Ilostit · 04/03/2022 07:46

Leading on from another thread about the 90s. I was prob about 6-7 so 1985-1987 ish and I was smacked by my headteacher. It only happened once. I don’t remember why (I was a very well behaved child but came from a troubled house and I may have played up if things were bad at home).

I was called into the office called a naughty girl and smacked.

I hate that it’s one of my memories from childhood. My parents never physically abused me. That Headteacher is the only person to have ever hit me.

Was anyone else hit at school in the 80s?

OP posts:

workstealssleep · 21/12/2024 02:35

And at home.

theallotmentqueen · 21/12/2024 14:35

HoneyFlowers · 04/03/2022 09:19

My mum said a teacher made her wait behind after school and then she pulled her knickers down and smacked her on bare bottom.

I went to a junior school where they punished you by making you sit with hands on head for ages, lose all playtime for weeks and threatened to lock toilets up all day. There was a teacher who was very mean and during playtime if she saw a child going to the toilet she would deliberately stop to make them wait and suffer even longer and say "good I'm glad you need the toilet". As an adult I have high anxiety over toilets and if I see a toilet open in public I always have to use it in fear it will get locked up.

Another school a teacher tied a boys feet together with shoelaces and in secondary school the toilets were locked with 15 mins access in morning and open at lunch and 15 mins access in afternoon. Again did not help with anxiety with toileting.

That's absolutely horrific. I'd personally say that your mother wasn't just a victim of smacking, she was a victim of sexual assault. Pulling down a child's underwear is so fucked up, let alone smacking them.

I'm also pretty sure that your teacher actually engaged in a form of torture with the whole loo thing. Torture is technically defined as 'inhuman/degrading treatment' according to the Scottish Human Rights Commission.

It would be interesting to contact any of the teachers if they're still alive, and have a conversation with them about why they thought this behaviour was ok.

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