My grandmother had a small brass ornament. It was of three monkeys ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’.
I think that perfectly typifies the closed minds of those who saw themselves as the ‘backbone’ in, say the 50’s and early sixties. Later, in the 70s/80s, more people started to think for themselves and see what had been staring them in the face for years. That was what gave the impetus to STOPP and others who exposed the ‘abuse’ of CP in our schools and reformatories.
The first outward sign of abusive use of CP in schools is normally excessive use of punishment, and that can be deduced from the rate of punishment as recorded, and the number of ‘repeat caning’ which was also very high at Bacon’s.