Twenty-four of the 30 pupils who barricaded themselves in a classroom at Sir Harold Wilson’s old school, Royds Hall secondary school at Paddock, Huddersfield, on Wednesday, were each given two strokes of the cane. Four others who refused punishment were suspended and the other two have not returned to school.
The caned children were aged from 12 to 16 and included four girls.
Three schools in Telford New Town, Salop, were closed for a “cooling off” period after education officials had said control over the pupils had been lost. A Leicester school was closed because its headmaster said, the pupils had been acting like hooligans.