1) The only CP references I noticed were of Colin West. Did this school really give its teachers such latitude in such sensitive areas of discipline?
2) Was spanking a permitted punisment?
3) Were male teachers allowed to CP female pupils?
4) Was West really getting away with putting girls OTK and spanking them (would any teacher spank with their hand, rather than with an implement, if an older pupil were bent over a desk, or touching their toes)?
5) Are all the cautious, somewhat coded references on this site a consequence of the NUT etc famously protecting their many dodgy Union members.
ASIDE: [rant-mode-on] what is the world coming to when real life victims of convicted teachers are NOT allowed to clearly detail their feeling and experiences, and possible encourage others to reveal the true extent of his ‘reign of terror’.
6) Were the pupils of the school ‘protected’ from knowledge of the court case, and ‘prevented’ from adding to the complaints against him, as some of the posts imply.