Secondary 4 contains students who turn 16 during the year, except those who have been "retained" (held back for a year), who will turn 17. Under Ministry of Education guidelines, a disobedient youth may be required to take up to three strokes of the cane on any one occasion. A formal caning in the English tradition is a well-understood consequence for a wide range of non-trivial misdemeanours in school (and out of school too, if the boy is in his school uniform). The setting is a large mixed-sex neighbourhood secondary school near the west coast, one which makes moderate use of corporal punishment.Ĭorporal punishment, for male students only, is a standard component of the tough disciplinary regime in Singapore's world-class, high-achieving, ultra-modern education system. This is thought to have been taken in 2006 or early 2007.
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He receives two hard strokes of the cane across the seat of his school uniform trousers as he bends across a desk. Here, a student is being punished by his school's Discipline Master ("DM") in front of his class. This is a "serious" punishment in that it is not supposed to be a jocular event, but it is not a particularly "severe" one: each boy gets only one stroke - quite a lenient "sentence" for fighting, always a big problem with adolescent boys - and the strokes are not all that hard by Singapore school standards.Įven so, the first miscreant lets out a yelp of pain the fourth shudders forward under the cane's impact, shouts out "Aiyoh!" (a Singlish exclamation) and clutches his buttocks as he turns away and the fifth boy's hands can be seen darting to the seat of his pants just as the film ends.ĬLIP 2 of 4: An upper secondary student receives two strokes of the cane in front of his class (4 seconds) Before each stroke he takes an experimental swish or two through with the air with his cane, before aiming carefully at the lower half of the student's buttocks, so he will get a reminder each time he sits down, for the rest of that day at least. He adjusts the boy's trousers and blue protective padding very precisely. The master has each boy bend forward, put his hands on the back of the chair (rather inept - "hands on the seat" would produce a more efficient posture and be more stable) and look at the poster on the wall.
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Later he tells the class there will be three more boys caned, the first of those being Jeremy, and that "fighting has been happening far too many times". The dialogue is hard to catch, but I think he is heard saying to the first boy, "bend over, I am required to cane you once". (Despite this, there is a bit of giggling later on.) These students have been misbehaving, he says, and must be punished.
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The padding covers the area just above the boy's backside the punishment is applied a couple of inches lower down.Īt the start of the clip, the discipline master tells the class not to laugh, because it is not very funny. Observers often misunderstand this and think the cane lands on the pad. This school, whose uniform for male students was all-white, used to tie a special blue towelling pad round the waist of boys being disciplined, to protect the lower spine and kidneys against a mis-stroke. As at many secondary schools in Singapore, corporal punishment for male students here was fairly common, always delivered with a rattan to the seat of the trousers. Farrellįour video clips of real Singapore schoolboy canings.ĬLIP 1 OF 4: Five secondary boys are caned for fighting (3 minutes)Īt Bedok North Secondary, a co-educational school (now closed) in a working-class suburb of Singapore in 2009, five lads in Secondary 3 (age 14 - 15) are given one stroke of the cane each in front of their class. Video clips: School caning in Singapore With comments by C. SCHOOL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: four videos of genuine Singapore caning