Parliament decided to prohibit CP in state schools only because (once they had persuaded themselves, wrongly in my view, that you couldn’t have some pupils who could be whacked and others in the same class who couldn’t because their parents objected) there didn’t at the time seem to be any other practical way of providing free state education for students whose parents were philosophically opposed to CP — not because CP itself had been found to be unlawful.
Memories of Corporal Punishment20
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Attraction to those who received Corporal Punishment8
My experience is that it didn’t make much difference, if girls ever talked about it they didn’t do so...
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How many strokes 1
Just as a matter of interest did anybody either receive or give more than six strokes of the cane...
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The Cane in UK Schools53
Definitely sexist as there was no way a girl would have been asked to do the same. I had...
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Pupils in a Class of their Own for Bad Behaviour40
I never learned to skip or play hopscotch. I can read an electronic schematic but a knitting pattern leaves...
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Chastisement Across the Ages5
Throughout all these moves he kept to a more or less rigid type of organization: the duplicating-machine and the...
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Mrs Hamilton11
I asked what ‘discretion’ meant. Mrs Hamilton explained and I understood. I must have looked terrified – I certainly...
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Plimsols Pumps Slippers & Slippering 13
I am just curious about prefects being able to administer cp in an all girls school. Was this...
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The Cane and the Double Standard8
Their first names were Margaret and Carol. One day in the school grounds during breaktime, they approached me as...