It’s not hard to find accounts of people who feel they’d been brutalised by sadistic teachers in school. However I believe they’re vastly outnumbered by people who realised they’d been appropriately punished for wrongdoing and don’t bear a grudge. Go to any poll or discussion which seems to reflect the account of ordinary people and more will wish to see the return of CP in schools than otherwise. I’m not desperately pro-CP, my own kids got through school OK without CP and, if it had been in place, there probably wouldn’t have been much difference to their experience – and frequenting sites such as this I can see the very real possibility of attracting perverts and sadists into the teaching profession. But as far as I can tell that wasn’t most people’s experience, certainly in normal state schools, and if others are convinced that reintroduction of caning, etc would improve behaviour (and the experience of the vast majority of generally well-behaved kids who currently get put upon by the problem ones) then they have a right to say so
School CP’s Little Secret8
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Punished for Bad School Report18
Leaving class one day, I absent-mindedly put a padlock belonging to one of the class cupboards in my blazer...
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Supermarket Weep5
Charles Warrell, ex headmaster created I-SPY books, spotter’s guides written for kids, particularly successful in the 50s and 60s....
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Slippered at School16
It wasn’t that vicious; you would sort of swallow, rub yourself, and go back to your seat, and probably...
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The Discipline of Females29
At the school, girls were rarely whacked on the bottom. In fact I only once saw a girl caned....
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Refusing to do the Dishes4
I looked at her pleadingly. “Mommy, please, no! I love you. I’ll do the dishes.” “I know you will...
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A Trip to the Head15
My knees wobbled in terror. “While you’ve only been here once before — that was for cheek, and you...
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The Missing Slipper2
Mum had canceled a visit to my cousins’ home after her car broke down. We could have used the...
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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,...