So we found that those supporting CP in the home are often abused online by others who suggest that they’re in favour of toddlers being harshly whipped, which is hardly fair comment.
The long and short of it is that we’ve gone from one extreme to the other in the past century, and thus I believe discipline and punishment were more balanced when I myself was in full-time education, half a century ago.
Roald Dahl writes about CP at several schools in his childhood.
He was so ‘anti’ that he told his headmaster at Repton school that he would refuse to cane younger boys, in the event of him being made a prefect.
The result was that he never was. Dahl’s anti-CP sentiments were so strong that they formed the basis of one of his short stories, Galloping Foxley, which was adapted for television in the series Tales of the Unexpected.
My own father attended a prep school where the headmaster once caned the entire class because he was dissatisfied with their work.