The head of Bacon’s, Wilfred Ing, today refused to say how his pupils were caned. “Any information is a confidential matter between the home and the school,” he said.
An ILEA spokesman said today that corporal punishment was a “confidential matter between the school and the home,”
This keeping things confidential was the reason it continued for so long. Any one instance may well have been confidential between school and home. But why a clear statement could not have been made about the school’s overall policy and methods of corporal punishment was not issued was again, claimed as being confidential. Was it a well-known fact to several or all parents?