Now, all the state wanted from such schools was control. The kids were unlikely to go to uni. Most of them were unlikely to gather many formal qualifications. The majority of the best of them would end up in apprenticeships or typing colleges. In the school, the teachers were judged on one criterion, those who could maintain order, and those who could not.
1) All the better mixed secondary modern kids accepted severe CP as a necessary mechanism that the teachers could use to handle the most disruptive or violent kids. They wanted the people that made their lives hell dealt with harshly, as a simple survival mechanism. There is no mystery here whatsoever. Even in Colin West’s case comes the story of him spanking (OTK) two teen girls who had bullied another girl by spraying cheap perfume in her eyes.