Moreover in my early days of teaching the school could rely on support and reinforcement from the home. Many a girl who had the disgrace of being caned by myself, or even just serving a school detention, has returned home for the ‘crime’ to be discovered, and for her mother or father to apply further discipline. Indeed in the case of my own daughter, I never flinched from giving a serious dose of the hairbrush if she misbehaved- even just getting lines. Punished at school, bottom roasted at home- no argument!
Unfortunately even by the 80’s this tradition had been undermined by a woolly liberalism where parents became the ‘friends’ with their adolescent children. Sanctions in the home were abandoned, and support for the school in disciplinary actions could no longer be taken for granted.