Thailand -- Jocular schoolboy canings: 4 video clips.

Clip 1 of 4

In this 15-second scene, taken in a private Christian high school in Thailand in 2009, a lady teacher takes careful aim before administering one stroke of the cane to a student standing at the whiteboard. After it, he makes a comic act of pretending to fall to the ground in pain. There is an atmosphere of jocularity.

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Clip 2 of 4

In this 90-second clip, eight senior students are in turn given one stroke of the cane each in front of their class in Bangkok Christian College.

It has been claimed that they are being punished for failing to bring their books to class.

The mass whacking is taking place in an atmosphere of much jocularity, and was clearly not seen as a serious punishment. Nevertheless, the teacher wields his cane enthusiastically and the strokes look solid enough. Note that when one already caned boy drifts momentarily back into the camera's range he is still holding his bottom.

One student appears to be trying to argue his way out of getting his due, but the teacher gives him short shrift and the boy soon submits.

Unlike other classroom video clips taken on mobile phones, there is nothing furtive about this film. The teacher was surely aware that he was being filmed. Both he and the students seem to be playing up to the camera.

This, together with the general air of hilarity, probably makes the event not typical. However, it seems reasonable to suppose that caning must have been accepted as a fairly standard punishment in this school at the time.

And when was that time? I think it must be from within the last few years because videophones that produce this kind of picture quality have not been around very long. The fashionably long baggy shorts also suggest a fairly recent date. When I was in Bangkok about ten years ago, boys' school uniform short trousers were a little bit shorter and tighter than this, I think. The film came to light in 2006 and I think it was probably quite new then.

CP has now been banned in Thai schools, in theory at least. The former regulations for school CP in Thailand said that it should take place in private, not in front of other students. But it is possible that neither those rules, nor the recent ban, apply to private school such as this, and even if they do in theory, we may assume that nobody is going to start invoking rules and regulations for a light-hearted event such as this.

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Clip 3 of 4

This 1½-minute clip could well be from the same school as the above. Certainly the uniform is exactly the same, but it is a different teacher. Here again, a group of senior boys are assembled at the front of the class to be dealt with. The schoolmaster has a very long cane which if used with any enthusiasm could be seriously punishing. However, it is all in fun, and each boy gets one very light tap only.

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Clip 4 of 4

Two boys get one stroke of the cane each in this 40-second clip. The lady teacher, who has a cane of almost Singaporean proportions, requires each student to put his hands on the desk and bend forward for punishment. The strokes are well-aimed at the buttocks. The class is rowdy and there is some hilarity, in which the caned boys join, but the teacher remains solemn. The first boy clutches his backside as he walks back to his place.

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See also these further collections of school CP video clips from Thailand:
-- Schoolboy canings of a more solemn nature
-- Canings of mixed boys/girls
-- Schoolgirl canings