Caning on the Hands17

On a personal note, I deserved the four corporal punishments I received and I don’t believe that I was punished unjustly and my punishments I received were not outside of the accepted standards of the day. I do feel that the cane should have been applied to the bottom rather than the hands due to the delicate nature of the construction of human hands, especially children’s hands. If there were concerns about the nature of striking children’s bottoms for misbehaviour at school then the talk should have been about the continued use of school corporal punishment rather than adjusting the way school corporal punishmnet was administered. Furthermore the use of corporal punishment was under the notion of in loco parentis where teachers had the same rights as parents over the children under their care. If I was in trouble at home I ended up with a sore bottom rather than sore hands. Corporal punishment was stopped in 1986 and it was returned in 1988 and I was caned for the last time in my schooling that year.