Where state schools failed to put something in place of CP, the private sector sort out other approaches to punishments with parental support, that seem to have worked, which tends to support the argument that boys can respond just as well to alternative methods of punishment without the cane given the right circumstances and support.
At best it supports the argument that ‘some boys can respond just as well to alternative methods of punishment without the cane given the right circumstances and support’ and that certainly is true. There are boys for whom alternative approaches are effective. Sometimes more effective. But there are also boys for whom they are not.