Why are we outraged at the thought of a schoolboy or girl being caned ?
Who are ‘we’? I’m not, you’re not, a fair proportion of the habitués of this estimable Forum aren’t, the people frequently to be found in newspapers and other media calling for the return of school corporal punishment aren’t.
The reasons we don’t have school CP lie partly outside the UK and are not necessarily under the control of those of whom you say:
Most of the people in key decision making roles in this country were subject to the possibility of being caned, or were actually caned.