Mueller College at Rothwell: The Principal, Mr Krueger, said the school used the cane ocasionally on parental request. Subsequently the school’s Board of Directors said the cane wasn’t used due to ‘adverse publicity’. The moral of the story is never trust a reporter and never talk to the media under any circumstances, which you’d expect a man who’d been a school Principal for 19 years to have known!
Caloundra Christian College has a ‘strict discipline policy’ and sometimes uses ‘corporal correction’.
In my book only one of the named spokespersons emerged with any credit from the article. That’s David Robertson, acting executive director of ISQ (presumably Independent Schools of Queensland?) who said ‘Discipline policies are developed by schools in consultation with their parent communities’, or in other words, mind your own darn business. Everybody else, including the quoted parent, should have had the sense to keep their mouths firmly closed.