Written Assignments

They used to give out written punishments in schools. Sometimes they were deliberately chosen for their edifying moral value, and other times for the purpose of boring the student into not repeating the bad behavior.

I recall only one written punishment during my school days. I guess the class must have been pretty rowdy. Several times the teacher assigned us all to write out the preface of the class text.

A while back I belonged to a couple of yahoo groups involving written punishments. Depending on the sub’s misbehavior, his Mistress would assign him a writing passage to copy for a certain number of lines. The subs would write out lines, then scan them and email them to their Mistress. She would correct them and pronounce them satisfactory or not.

The other group used a little application called Fond of Writing. A domme will set up an assignment within the program. She sends it to the sub, who types out the assignment acording to her specifications. When he is done, he gets a verifiable report to send back to his domme, proof not only that he did the assignment, but how long he took and how many errors he made.

There are lots of parameters to set, and maybe even lots of interrelated messages to write. There’s also an image to be inserted, and it has to be in the bitmap form and within certain size limits. I did this a few times. After a while it became clear that it took me half an hour to prepare an assignment that would take half an hour to complete.Of course the sub loved it, but it was getting harder and harder to make assignments within his narrow interests. After a while I just told him how much time it had been taking me. Subs don’t usually think that fun assignments take time for the writer. Eventually I had an interaction with one of the moderators, who was extraordinarily condescending. I quit the groups.

So I was pretty surprised recently when a couple of boys in a school I’m working in were made to write sincere letters of apology for their misbehavior. What an old-fashioned punishment!

It’s working.