As to the 1968 recommendations. Lyn , my S.O. was a Scottish teacher in both state and private sectors before the respective abolition , and did use the tawse. she recalls that the agreement was signed by the EIS and then ignored by their members, especially the clause that insisted that the belt could not be used to punish academic failure in the classroom . She wouldn’t use it for that, she knew many who did.
Whole Class Punisment68
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Plimsols Pumps Slippers & Slippering 30
The whole idea of PT & PE is to help make pupils healthy and develop an interest in physical...
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Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage50
Psychologists know how to read this data. It’s trivial with training in many cases. Sometimes very complicated in other...
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Why Corporal Punishment Has to / Had to Go2
As some one who works in a daycare I have seen kids get hurt doing the same thing and...
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Smacked Bottom Time 1
I was brought up in the 1960s, when smack bottoms – as they were called then, at least in...
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How Mum use to Slipper1
As a child of the 60s, it will come as no surprise to learn that my mother was a...
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Pupils in a Class of their Own for Bad Behaviour36
The details are a bit vague. I can’t remember whether this was in class or if I was being...
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Slippered at School28
Other teachers did not use the slipper and if they thought you merited corporal punishment would use the cane...
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The Cane and the Double Standard25
Why? What did it achieve apart from enhancing Miss F’s ‘hard’ reputation? Well according to her this later to...