The Caning Headmistress

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As new Literature’s teacher, the Headmistress invited me to accompany her on Friday’s afternoon during the weekly detention session. I started to protest the disparity in punishments but was warned that if I did, I would get even more swats. I scribbled over my fellow students’ artwork decorating the walls with a fat stick of charcoal I stole from the art room. The school secretary came out and she left me standing, hands on head, outside the headmistress’s office. The way she firmly grasped the cane, her agile swing, her wrist touch… after a few lessons, she hitted so hard, that even ruined one cushions they used as target to practice.

But it also reminds me of my own memories of deserving punishment when I was 13 and not getting it, and the conflict that resulted, so maybe it’s not that surprising really. I merely had a sense of self at that age and, frankly, as a result of my home life being pretty messed up was probably more of a handful than most.This was the last term for we sixteen year olds, before our exams, and Mr Ellis was at his board trying to cram our minds with knowledge. As a fourth year, it was a girls only Biology class with Miss H whose speciality was dissecting all manner of things. When I entered the place was quite full, so when I saw the beautiful waitress that usually works there, I asked her for a place in the back room, where I knew there are soft armchairs. However I recognise that others might say that Australians are too individualist and could have done with more of that control themselves.

I really didn’t mind because there was no scolding, no nastiness, and no malice, and I know I’d been naughty so getting a smacked bottom was fair.By now the 4 of us were very frightened especially when the second girl came out with tears streaming down her face and rubbing her bottom. Still angry, I stomped towards my classroom, dragging the charcoal along the wall as I went, when I spied the cloakroom out of the corner of my eye. When he came back he told me to put the wooden chair in the middle of the room and bend over the back of it.