My own attitude to school cp is one of total opposition, but I also think there’s no need to make it out to be worse than it was. Because what it was was bad enough. At my school in Africa, like Dean’s in Aus, you weren’t caned on a whim. The kind of arbitrary justice that I sometimes hear about on this forum never happened at my school. There was at least consistency. You knew what was a caneable offence and what wasn’t. It’s just that caneable offences began at a fairly trivial level – talking in class after being warned (usually twice, sometimes just once), answering back, handing in homework late several times in succession, that sort of thing. Even many who approve of cp would have thought the retribution disproportionate.
Related Articles
-
You Have the Choice24
Joanne mulls that thought over for a couple of moments. “I suppose what I really need...
-
Was the Pain of Corporal Punishment a Deterant10
Where you say, But I also believe that many schools, that used the cane as an ultimate deterrent, especially...
-
Views on Suspect Teachers from the Good Old Days32
As for regulation of school CP, there wasn’t a lot of it around when I was at school. Some...
-
School Corporal Punishment History110
It was a serious offence for a boarder to be out of bounds, even on a hike! One of...
-
School Corporal Punishment References68
LVS Ascot Sally It was definetly Mr Stonelake during European Studies. I remember it clearly – we all got...
-
Fluids of Discipline9
It was harder than the normal caning, because the head was very angry with me & it was my...
-
Purposeful Corporal Punishment6
There were two lads at my secondary school who were always getting the cane. They could be seen afterward...
-
School Corporal Punishment History57
From 1961 the prefects discerned a new crime: General Attitude, or GA. In Australian law, a state of mind...
