This is a forum for everyone to discuss boys' paddlings, whoopings, beltings, slipperings and other punishments. Do you feel your paddlings, beltings or other punishments are or were fair? Unfair? Too harsh? Do you wish they were done differently? Want advice? Kids & adults welcome.

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Notes on forum pic: Saint George's Day is 23rd April. Saint George was a Roman soldier of Cappadocian Greek origin who is believed to have been martyred for his Christian faith in Palestine about 1700 years ago. He is the patron saint of England, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Ukraine, Malta, and Ethiopia, as well as Catalonia and Aragon in Spain, and Moscow in Russia. There have been calls for Saint George's Day to be made a public holiday in England, but this has not yet happened. 23rd April, also World Book Day, is also celebrated as the birthday of William Shakespeare, considered the greatest English language author of all time. Shakespeare was educated at a grammar school in an English market town in the late 1500s, and would likely have received bare bottom birchings as punishment. The clothing and schoolroom shown here are of a style from two or three centuries later than Shakespeare’s time. We last used this as a forum pic in Autumn 2021.

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