Schooldays - The Best Days of Your Life: Emma and Candice are two mischievous, boy crazy sixteen-year-olds who attend Larkfield Comprehensive. Emma, petite, cute, and with a look of innocence, is influenced by Candice, her racy, more daring friend. The girls have been sneaking out of school on a regular basis to go flirt with two apprentice motor mechanics who work nearby. On this occasion, however, they are caught by Mr Beamish, the feared head of the fifth year, who gives both girls a sound slippering. Later in the year the girls are in trouble once again when Emma is found to be doing Candice's homework so the latter can work in a lingerie factory. When the truth comes out a fight breaks out between the girls and their mothers get involved too. This time Mr Beamish punishes them with the tawse, a light two-tailed one for Emma but an extra heavy three-tailed one for Candice!

Unofficial Corporal Punishment at Holt Academy: With the Holt Academy, a co-ed state school in Dorset, having been instructed by its Trust to eradicate corporal punishment, the headmaster, Mr Kirk, and his deputy, Mrs Osman, were relieved to see that only three incidents had been recorded in their punishment book throughout the school year, and that those had been carried out only on boys by himself. What the headmaster didn't know, however, was that there had also been two occasions when girls had been subjected to corporal punishment of a kind which could be regarded as both unusual and excessive...