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 Slipper in UK Schools43
I guess this may have been due to the fact that it was administered across PE shorts, it was...
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Outside the Heads Office8
There was no waiting. We knew that we were expected, as our form-master had discussed our case with the...
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Memories of Corporal Punishment21
Indeed, in a later case (Costello-Roberts, involving a boy slippered at prep school) the court reaffirmed that corporal punishment...
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The Cane and the Double Standard49
Well, that’s interesting. It’s only a recent phenomenon. Up until about 1975, it was exactly the other way...
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Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage59
Did tradition play a part? Certainly – but most traditions in schools actually have some common sense behind them...
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And when we got there the Cupboard was Bare8
I haven’t given my detailed views on any of these . If the thread takes off obviously I will....
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School Belt4
The belt, was as its name suggests. As a rule it would be doubled over and applied to hands...
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Half of the blame1
My story goes back to the mid-50s, when my mother and her sister rented a place in Miami Beach...