If you want to demonstrate official statistics are rubbish, fine, but don’t just ignore them . Besides which talk to any teacher in the state sector within Scotland pre 1980 and listen to what they will say….I know a couple who would tell you ……If you were educated in the pre abolition period ( pre82) and you never got tawsed you were lucky in your parents’ choice of schools ,or very good! Of course I think technically CP wasn’t finally outlawed in Scotland in theory in the private sector as I understand the law, until 2000, but no tawsing post ’82 and the European court ruling.I have no knowledge of what practical effect this two stage legal move had.
Tawse Protection Clothing25
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Should unlawful incidents of school CP be taken to the Courts17
What was decided here was that the right of teachers in state schools to administer corporal punishment was not...
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This going to hurt you six times more 5
i think i reached my saturation point after one! That first stroke was always a real shock to the...
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Headmasters Caning Rules21
My Headmaster would cane in a very measured way. Having carefully chosen his selected cane from several hanging up...
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Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage69
Nowadays, we do actually have published research that backs this up, but with this as in many other cases,...
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Sent for the Cane 11
This relates not to myself but to another boy at my school. Some boys (about 6) were caught smoking,...
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Reactions to the Slipper10
Before carrying out the slippering the teacher told me that I’d been “asking for this for a long time”...
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No Nonsense from Grandma 3
After about 10 minutes, I heard my grandpa shouting: “Glenn? Are you out there? Glenn!” I called back...
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Rules of the House Mother11
We knew a little of these details in a vague sense, but there was a girl in our dormitory...