But what if I had believed in the efficacy of CP? I once asked myself whether, if I had sincerely believed in the merits and morality of corporal punishment, and hadn’t enjoyed administering it in the way I did, I would have used it more often, less often, or about about the same. I spent quite some time considering this, including examining many actual cases of slipperings I had handed out, and the inescapable conclusion I reached was that in many of those cases, I would not have used corporal punishment. That is not to say that the punishments in those cases breached the rules, because they didn’t, strictly speaking. But if I approached those cases purely from a perspective of what the purpose of CP was supposed to be, including the deterrent element, I would have simply given mere warnings to many of those girls, instead of the slipperings I did give them.
Corporal Punishment References from Buy Gone Days22
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The Cane in UK Schools74
The Chief Inspector suspected that Mr Ing had disguised around a hundred severe canings of girls over a decade...
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School Punishment Book104
There was also a high proportion of “dirty behaviour”. All offenders were boys, and usually in the lavatory, so...
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Corporal Punishment References144
St Malachys High Antrim Julie I got the strap for walking up the stairs on the wrong side by...
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The Slipper in UK Schools26
Then in the last week of term, one poor lad forgot his. I remember talking to him during...
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Sent for the Cane21
Several of us gave it a try, but as we could not afford a rehearsal studio, we practised in...
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Caning from of the Times52
Thursday, March 19th, 1914 KING’S BENCH DIVISION. THE PUNISHMENT OF INFIRMARY BOYS, KEATS v. BRACEY-WRIGHT AND OTHERS, (Before...
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Slipper Replaces Detention3
They were again very vulnerable.I do know, and stopped the slippering of all boys on the bare by pe...
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Thoughts of School Corporal Punishment6
The strokes sounded fearsome. The last bit I couldn’t make out, the whacks didn’t sound so loud but he...