4 The teachers were often from middle-class backgrounds – grammar/private school educated – where many would have been subject to strict discipline and cp.
5 They now found themselves in sole charge of (over) large classes of hugely disaffected, often illiterate, (for want of a better word)chavs!!
6 The 1960s and 1970s was a time of great social change when popular music and culture was encouraging youthful rebellion and permissiveness.
7 Corporal punishment was legal. Therefore, ordinary working-class teenage girls became subject to school corporal punishment on a wide scale for the first time in educational history.
8 The instrument of choice for girls in most secondary modern schools was the slipper. This was seen as a “milder” alternative to the cane. It justified it for many parents. “Girls ONLY get the slipper.” It was seen as a humanitarian act of kindness!