However at the end of the 70’s the SCER produced a survey that indicated that out of a sample of 2,000 students 1370 had been strapped , and that more boys (800) against girls (570) had received punishment , the boys also receiving it more frequently than the girls. Corpun quote also a BBC survey over a two week period which produces greater frequency of use but from a small sample size. The SCER continued to monitor student behaviour after abolition in the public sector and drew attention in 1992 to a substantial rise in all misbehaviour, including violent incidents , but particularly the explosion of ‘minor infractions’ which previously would have received the belt
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