I can distinctly remember one of STOPP’s campaigns in the 70’s which focused on Merseyside. There was hardly a secondary school where the punishment book wasn’t in weekly use, and most were daily entries.
They found that one school had entries over the year for around 850 of the 1,200 pupils! And that was canings only! Boys and girls,too!
For the benefit of Lotta and other uninitates, Ainsdale is in Southport, the posher end of Merseyside.
And the report on Flogging High was in-the Sun! Which was, even then, not noted for restraint and tender feelings towards misbehaving teenagers.
I also say Hail to a man who admits his fetish for slippers publicly-NOT the mark of someone making it up.
In my time at grammar(63-70), whites started to dominate blacks by 10-1 in the plimsoll world,after a fairly even start. Mine were dirty white, due to thousands of lunchtime games of football, in which I often played in goal and saved quite a few pens.