I have recently taken up the position of Head of Business Studies at the local girls’ school having been working as a teacher within the school for 4 years and really enjoy the job because all of the girls are really bright. I teach across all of the business subjects but particularly enjoy my 5th form economics class which contains 26 girls. One Thursday afternoon towards the end of the Christmas term they are in a particularly boisterous mood from the start and I’ve already had to dish out a few sets of lines to try and calm them down but it hasn’t really had the desired effect. I know that there will be trouble when I have to leave the class alone to take an important phone call and as I turn back into the corridor about fifteen minutes later I can hear a general commotion emanating from my classroom. As luck would have it Heather, the Headgirl in the school, was walking along the corridor in the opposite direction and she was on a double free period.
‘I knew that there would be trouble when I left my class to get on with their work without supervision’ I said to Heather when she asked what was going on, ‘I’ve already given out lines so the next stage is the tawse and cane. Would you like to help me in disciplining my class?’ I ask knowing that it is still nominally one of Heather’s responsibilities but to do it she has to jump through so many hoops that it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
‘Yes please’ Heather says with a smile on her face. We stand silently outside of the door for a couple of minutes until there is a burst of girlish giggling from the classroom. Only Emily saw us entering the room as she had stood up from the group that was crowded round Anita’s desk obviously engrossed in something that was on the desk.
‘Oh shit’ was Emily’s less than ladylike response and this caused everyone to look up and I saw Anita scrambling to get something into her desk but she wasn’t quick enough so I just held my hand out waiting for her to give me the offending article. It was a pornographic magazine so I immediately confiscated it and threw it in my bin.
‘I’m not even going to bother asking who the magazine belongs to. Since you have all obviously been looking at it you will all receive equal punishment and Heather is here to help me administer the punishment’ I say to a silent class for the first time today. I hand Heather a tawse and a cane which are heavier than the implements she was given as Headgirl and another smile flickers across her face. I take two chairs from the front row and place them at the front of the room with the backs facing the audience who I can see are all looking suitably nervous particularly as they now realise that Heather will be taking a very direct part in the punishment.
‘Line up in front of the blackboard girls’ I say and watch them troop out dejectedly knowing that they are in for a very painful few minutes.
‘Six with the tawse over the knickers first’ I say for the benefit of the girls as much as for Heather although she is delighted because any punishments she could give were over the skirt only. I called the first two girls forward and instructed them to bend over the back of the chair with their hands on the seat. This would allow the waiting girls to see the facial reactions as the punishments were administered. As the girls were walking forward they both headed for Heather’s chair thinking that this would be an easier option but only one of them could get there so the girl who had been second in line had to step over to my chair. Heather followed my lead in raising her girl’s skirt onto her back and she then raised the tawse holding it in position for a second. I was watching Heather and could see the look of concentration on her face as she focused on the target in front of her. She swished the tawse down hard into the target and it landed with a sharp crack that dispelled any notion that being punished by her would be easier. The gasp that this first stroke drew from Heather’s girl was soon matched by the one that came from my girl. Heather looked across at me for reassurance and I was happy to give it to her.
‘Carry on in your own time Heather’ I said and she did it. Five more times the tawse cracked home on both girls and they were then sent to stand at the end of the line with their skirts still raised but this time facing the wall. I called forward the next two girls and tellingly they just walked to the nearest chair without trying to get to Heather first. I concentrated on punishing the girls that were in front of me but could hear that Heather lost none of her strength as the tawsings carried on and this was impressive because many of the teachers weren’t as proficient as she was. Soon enough all of the girls were back standing in front of the wall.
‘That punishment was for your rowdiness throughout the lesson and for disobeying my instruction to work quietly when I left the room. You will now be punished for looking at a pornographic magazine’ I say and three of the girls turn round to look at me with shock obviously thinking that their punishment was over.
‘Heather did any of the girls try to disrupt your punishment? I asked.
‘Only a couple of them when they put their hands back after a stroke’ Heather answered.
‘Well in that case you can call those girls up first and give them twelve strokes of the cane over the knickers. Emily, Anita and Mary you will also receive twelve strokes over the knickers for turning round before permission was granted to do so. The rest of you will receive six strokes of the cane over the knickers, should there be any repeat of either offence in the future then the punishments will be on the bare bottom. Now turn round and face us’ I say and all of the girls turn round. Before she started the punishment Heather picked up the cane and gave it a couple of hearty swishes through the air and some of the girls flinched with this.
‘Emily you will step forward’ I said.
‘Janet you will step forward’ Heather said immediately after me.
Again I watched Heather’s first stroke of the cane and just as with the tawse she was very capable so none of the girls would receive a significantly easier time from her. Not one of the girls avoided shedding a few tears during the caning and these continued when they were standing facing the wall after their punishment had been completed. The punishments had taken up most of the lesson time so it was only for a few minutes that they had to go and sit down but they all did so rather gingerly.
‘Thank you for your assistance Heather. Girls you will also thank Heather for punishing you’ I say and they all do it politely obviously fearing what would happen to them if they didn’t do it.
‘Girls as you have wasted all of your lesson time you will complete the work you were supposed to do as homework and hand it in first thing tomorrow morning’ I said and I wasn’t surprised to find out later in the day that they had all been very quiet in their last class of the afternoon and it didn’t surprise me either that 26 perfect pieces of work were handed to me the following morning. Heather handed back my tawse and cane once the girls had been dismissed.
‘Thank you for allowing me to assist you with the punishment Mr Smith. I will go and get my stuff from the library and will see you back here for my own economics class shortly’ Heather says and I’d actually forgotten that she would be in my next class. The sixth form economics class that Heather is part of is an absolute dream to teach because they are all so willing to work and they ask so many questions to get to grips with the subject that it keeps me on my toes as a teacher. It is very rare for any member of this class to require punishment so it is quite a surprise when Heather remains behind at the end of the lesson.
‘I presume that you have been practising with your tawse and cane just in case you get the chance to use them because you are more proficient with them than some of the teachers’ I say before Heather has a chance to say anything to me.
‘Thank you, yes I have been practising on some pillows in my bedroom at home but I have to say the real thing is so much better. I just hope that I get the opportunity to experience it again this year’ Heather answers.
‘Well if you do then the girl will know that she has been properly punished. Now you obviously remained behind for a reason so what is it?’ I asked.
‘I was on my way to the library to do the preparation for your class when you saw me walking down the corridor and gave me a better option so I feel that I deserve to be punished for failing to prepare for the lesson last night when I went to the cinema instead’ Heather said very quietly.
‘Your honesty is very commendable Heather because there was nothing in your performance that would have revealed your lack of preparation however since you have admitted it I will punish you in the same way as we punished the class earlier’ I answered. Heather picked up one of the chairs and placed it in the centre of the room before bending her tall frame very elegantly over it. I lifted Heather’s skirt up and was very surprised when she reached back and lowered her knickers.
‘Because I am the Headgirl and should know better my punishment should be on the bare bottom’ Heather said. I have never had the opportunity to punish Heather before and I’m sure that very few of the other teachers have either because she has always been a model pupil so this was going to be very interesting. It was a heavy tawse that had been used on the earlier class and I picked this up again and rested it across Heather’s bottom. I gave her exactly the same weight of stroke as I’d given the earlier class and apart from the odd gasp and sway of her bottom Heather took them without a fuss even though her bottom had taken on the hue of an over-ripe tomato by the time the sixth stroke had been delivered.
‘As you have said you are the Headgirl of this school and should know better than to turn up for lessons unprepared so you will receive the full twelve strokes of the cane’ I say while tapping it across Heather’s bottom.
‘Yes Sir, thank you Sir’ she answers taking a tighter hold on the chair. Heather counts off each of the strokes with her voice getting softer and softer as each stinging stroke bites into her bottom and then for the last one I give it a good bit harder so that Heather will remember this punishment for a long time to come. There is a real yelp after this one and I see Heather tensing up all of the muscles in her legs letting me know that she has really felt it.
‘Twelve thank you Sir’ Heather says with a real quiver in her voice.
‘Your punishment is complete Heather. You may stand up and rub your bottom if you wish’ I say and as soon as I’ve finished speaking Heather gets to her feet and takes hold of her bottom before running her hands slowly over the striped skin.
‘Thank you Sir I needed that’ Heather says before pulling up her pants, lowering her skirt and walking out of the room.