What was the worst Victorian school punishment?

Answer 1

The most severe punishment during the Victorian period was death by hanging. If a criminal was not sentenced to hang then they would have been imprisoned, men would be sent to the armed forces, given a hard labor sentence or sent to the colonies (most often Australia).

Answer 2

During Victorian times, authorities were still trying to figure out which punishments were appropriate to which crimes. This resulted in the implementation of many bizarre punishments, such as water torture, shackling, and finger stocks.

Answer 3

Probably birching (flogging with a birch) was the worst. This punishment was still the main form of discipline in the great public schools of the early Victorian period (1830's to 1850's). The method of birching had remained virtually unchanged from medieval times, and involved flogging errant pupils on their bare buttocks with a thick bundle of birch twigs. Boys would have to kneel and bend over a special piece of furniture called a 'flogging block' to receive the punishment, which could be several dozen strokes, leaving the whole of the victim's buttocks, often including the anoperineal sphere, a raw mass of blood and lacerated flesh This punishment was meted out to boys throughout their school life from their early teens until they were young men of 18 or 19. Despite the savage nature of the punishment, boys who were flogged frequently often became hardened and indifferent to the pain (and shame) of birching so that the punishment became ineffective. As the Victorian era progressed, birching on the bare buttocks was gradually replaced by caning on clothed buttocks, which was considered to be a more humane (and less indecent) form of punishment.

Answer 4

just don't look in the mirror after dark because if you do you will feel the pain felt by thousand's of Tudors and will have the most gruesome dreams unthinkable by man.....