Michael Aikman, Headmaster: “When an article in The Age treated Haileybury’s traditional educational programme under the provocative (but misleading) heading, ‘Cane Makes Them Able’, Haileyburians were delighted by an unexpected flood of parental enquiries about school entry. It is true that Haileybury has not abandoned recourse to the cane as a deterrent disciplinary tool, and that the school’s students seem to accept this situation as normal. However, rather than emphasizing the cane, Michael Aikman’s annual reports have stress ‘the progressive dilution of curricula’ and indifference towards traditional subject disciplines, which he believed were undermining State education and causing parents to turn to Haileybury.”
School Corporal Punishment History131
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Which was Worse21
I was both caned and strapped with a tawse in the 70s. Caning was most attended on trousers or...
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Memories of Corporal Punishment15
I remember one case where a girl in the year above me definitely got the slipper – she vandalised...
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Canings That Went Wrong14
This happened mainly with students who were extremely ‘hyper’ and with whom she could neither talk them down nor...
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A Hot Day in a Life8
he paused, then continued “Man, you could get a job stopping traffic with the job you mum gave you!,...
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Why Mikey Likes Eating At Home13
After securing promises from her three children that they would behave, they all set out for dinner. Sandy, Karen,...
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Six Strokes Of The Cane5
Why are we outraged at the thought of a schoolboy or girl being caned ? Who are ‘we’? I’m...
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Corporal Punishment References98
Neil Miss Lee , a music teacher at Grange, used to jump off a chair to strap you !...
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School Corporal Punishment The Pros and cons of5
The physical damage caused by corporal punishment will be temporary, but what about the psychological harm brought about by...