Different schools adopted different policies. In some the use of the belt merely ceased on the chosen date, but most arranged a phased withdrawal with its use being restricted to punishment with it for only serious offences and/or it being used only by senior members of staff or the headmaster and/or deputy headmaster alone.
The final ban did not bring with it the disruption many feared but no equally good alternative sanction was ever found.
The situation was similar at my school. Detentions were recorded and a slip was issued which had to be...
I expect that Im not the only one who discovered at an early age that corporal punishment was of...
Miss Allen – she was scary – spanked me in front of the class once with my friend Rosalind...
Obviously the level of fear varies from school to school. I suspect it is very low at the school...
The teacher who had caught us swearing was going to be our geography teacher for the first period after...
It probably went on for 10 minutes – an excruciatingly long time to be standing on full display. Finally,...
As for the Herald group these poor fools demanding the reintroduction of something that hasn’t even been abolished! but...
Our monitors at the infant’s school were called Janet and John. This sticks in my mind because our early...