'Volume 16 – The People's Choice' - The Woody Back to School Unit

The People’s Choiceexcruciating pain. It was devastating and sheimmediately retired her bumbags from the contest.Since then Rosemary Booker had become increasinglyreticent when it came to matters of whops.Rosemary pushed herself up from the pianostool. Her face was chalky white and her cheekspuffed out as she let her breath out in longimpassioned pants. With slow, stiff-legged steps shestepped aside to make way for Deborah.Debs licked her dry lips. Her tummy waschurning uncomfortably. She stepped over to thestool and very slowly bent over.Deborah Morton had never questioned thatwhops hurt. She had first been caned when she wastwelve years old; three strokes across the bumbagsdelivered in the Posh HQ at the strict QueensgateAcademy. There was no question it had hurt. Thecaning had made her teeth chatter and her eyeswater but she had refused to howl or blub.During the five years she spent at the academyshe was caned with increasing frequency and ferocity.The strokes increased and the intensity of thepunishments multiplied. She taught herself painmanagement, the ability to continue to functionrelatively normally even though her backside wasfrazzled and throbbing, but she never deluded herselfthat it didn’t hurt.At Woodys she had risen to Number Three onthe All-Time Hall of Shame, an achievement that hadrequired her to be beaten almost two hundred times.The kudos had been worth it but she never denied