Volume 26 – Café Woodys - The Woody Back to School Unit

Café WoodysThe inmates of the Woody facility watchedsympathetically as Miss Bowles was forced to trudgetowards the stairs with her head bowed and eyesaverted. No matter how cynical and whop-hardenedthe inmates had become they all still experienced thesame heart-stopping, gut-wrenching sensation everytime a red-card was thrust in their face.Jane Bowles took up position outside thelibrary. She pressed her nose to the wall and placedher hands on her head. Her heart was racing, hertummy was churning and her backside was throbbing.Earlier in the evening her name had beendrawn from the tombola and she had attended thepunishment salon made up like the lecture roomwhere she had been caned by Cathryn Cassidy.Miss Bowles had not arrived at the cafésporting a virgin arse. Like many of the moreexperienced Woodettes her interest in corporalpunishment had first evolved at boarding school.The school she attended had operated asystem where throughout the year the pupils wereawarded positive and negative performance marks. Atthe end of the year the girl from each year that hadthe lowest overall score was dispatched to thegymnasium to be caned. The idea was to give theluckless recipients something to think about over thesummer hols so they would return the following yearsuitably inspired to improve their performance.Like any school there were numerous cliques.At one end of the scale were the prim and properswats that groveled to the staff and worked