There has been a fair amount of discussion as to the fairness of CP between boys and girls where similar offences were committed, namely in co-ed schools, but were boys disadvantaged in general.
In State schools a high percentage of girls’ schools operate a non CP policy. Where girls attended co-ed schools, the ratio of caning between boys v girls was usually lower for girls, but every boys’ school, with few exceptions, adopted CP , so why were we singling out boys with a must have cane policy, was it assumed essential to discipline even if used sparingly, or, was tradition playing a part?
Why did so many heads and governors of boys’ schools not opt for a non caning policy, on a similar scale to girls’ schools? Behaviour among girls was no less or worse than boys, and caning on the whole was not only reserved for serious misdemeanours, but petty infractions that both genders committed.