The legal position, which technically could be solved by derogation, is really a smokescreen for what happened in the UK. By the mid 1970’s the Department of Education ( don’t worry it keeps changing its designation, but for this purpose, I’ll call it DOE throughout), had from the mid 70’s made its position crystal clear. It believed that equal opportunities legislation would bring back the cane for girls, and they wrote a whole series of internal memos to that effect. I quoted from one on this site some time ago in respect of Scotland and the tawse in issue……which showed they believed total abolition preferable ( in their case not on psychological grounds, but pure political cowardice).
How Hard Would It Be To Bring Back CP in the UK5
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Discipline at School2
All the evidence suggests that it was very very rare for girls to be punished by male teachers. Educational...
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Outside the Heads Office27
I remember being caught defacing a newly painted wall in my playground early in the morning when I was...
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Gym Master jungle2
These were your instructions from the PE master if he wanted you caned. At my boarding school-a virtual Colditze...
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Whole Class Punisment77
To look first at the situation down here in the run-up to 1987, I was always pretty clued up...
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The Cane in UK Schools28
Yet professionally in Australian, no, more precisely, Victorian psychology, sociology, child psychiatry, and educational fields there is a resounding...
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School Punishment Book38
Things of course changed with time. At this time, unless there was proof of the punishment being done for...
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Corporal Punishment References119
Rivington Rd High St Helens Joolz and caned by miss howard! Maria She was soooo scary I got the...
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Should unlawful incidents of school CP be taken to the Courts43
In addition, we were caned for poor academic performance, rather than bad behaviour (get 3/10 in a French test...