Friday, March 17, 1978,
Pupils face retribution after a brief revolt
It was a day of retribution yesterday in some Midlands schools for pupils who demonstrated against the teachers’ sanctions. Scores of children were caned.
At Polesworth school, Warwickshire, 50 children, including girls, who barricaded themselves into classrooms for up to four hours, were each given two or three strokes of the cane. Two members of the fifth form were suspended as the alleged ringleaders and will be brought before the governors.
At Solihull, west Midland, Mr Robert Fulton, head of Tudor Grange Comprehensive School, caned 20 boys and put several girls into detention for an unauthorized walkout. “There seemed no justifiable reason for their playing truant so I decided to take tough action,” he said.