The tendency for school CP to be sexually abusive was one of the main reasons for its removal from most of mainstream Europe, long before it vanished from the UK. British schools that spanked a lot were schools where the vanilla sadist, and/or the deviant, went unchallenged. This did not mean that no teacher or parent had concerns, but that neither had or felt confident enough, of their power to challenge the abuse. STOPP reports frequently came from anonymous teachers horrified that the head was an abuser or protected abusers.
For the longest time, secondary schoolgirls had been protected from dodgy male teachers. This did change, despite what some of you may believe, for many of them in the 50’s onwards. Powerful propaganda campaigns frequently suggested in the mainstream media that girls were now as ‘bad’ as boys.