Sir - I see that certain people are again kicking up a fuss about corporal punishment. There is no healthy-minded girl who will be one bit the worse of being stripped and flogged when she deserves it and many a parent would be very glad to find this practice substituted for the eternal nagging that makes life bitter and intolerable in some boarding schools.ĭublin Evening Mail, 16 August 1937 Today's Letters To The Editor Spanking Sir - Perhaps "M.C." of Athy, now that he (or she) has had time to calm down, will tell us where the "brutality" in giving a good strapping to a girl of 17 who is disobedient and indisciplined comes in. Could this treatment not be stopped? I am 18 years of age, and I dread the thought of returning to this school next month. My headmistress punishes for the slightest thing, and many a girl was left sore by her. I am ashamed to go to my doctor about them. I have still some marks, which do not appear to be going away. I am home on holiday from a boarding school, where I was severely caned by the headmistress for not having my work done I was stripped and given ten strokes. Sir - I have read the letter of "M.C." and I believe it to be true. It is certain that my daughter will not return to that school, and if girls would only speak up, I am sure that something could be done to stop it for all time.ĭublin Evening Mail, 12 August 1937 Letters to the Editor "Spanking" The doctor told me that complaints of a similar kind were reported in the Evening Mail some time ago, and advised me to report the matter to the Board of Education. Is there no law in the country to prevent such brutality? It is not a matter that a girl will willingly report to her parents especially a girl of 17, and I think these schools should be exposed for such punishment, as I now understand that girls are spanked on the bare hips for the slightest offence against the school rules in this school. The other girl, who later admitted getting the books, received fourteen strokes of birch rods for the terrible crime. She refused to do this, and was then brought to her room, where two other teachers assisted in removing her knickers, putting her across the bed, and while they held her there, the mistress gave her twelve strokes of a strap on the hips. The next morning the mistress sent for her and told her she would be punished if she did not tell where she got them. He questioned the girl, and she told us that recently a film book and novel had been smuggled into school by another girl, and that most of the girls got a look at them they were passed to her one day and she was caught reading them one night. When we got home I made a further examination, and to my horror I found four similar marks on her hips, I was so annoyed that I immediately sent for a doctor, who examined her and assured me that it was not serious, and the marks would leave in a short time.
When we were at the seaside last week I noticed a black mark showing just below her bathing costume on her leg, and when I inquired if she got a bruise or an insect sting, she blushingly told me she was spanked before leaving school. Sir - My daughter who is 17 years old is attending a boarding school, and is on holidays at present.
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Spanking of schoolgirls, Ireland, August 1937 - CORPUN ARCHIVE iesc3708Ĭorpun file 7213 at Dublin Evening Mail, 10 August 1937 To-day's Letters To The Editor "Spanked"