Bacon’s school, with the motto Gloria in Excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the Highest), is also earmarked in the survey as the “top caner” of boys. It uses the cane on boys between 400 and 500 times a year — two or three times every school day.
A total of 204 corporal punishment incidents on girls were recorded at Bacon’s in one school year. A fifth of the girl pupils got the cane — and 26 received it three or more times.
Loophole
The ILEA corporal punishment rule book says girls should be caned on the hand. But the survey uncovered a loophole showing the rules could be interpreted to allow girls to be caned on the bottom.
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.
