Yes I couldn’t agree more. Unfair treatment was largely in my mind to blame for public opinion swinging against corporal punishment in Britain. I’ve said before that I feel the first nail in the coffin was placed by those Heads in Scotland who determined that parents would have no ethical /moral opt out, a system which had applied in parts the States satisfactorily for most of the last century.
Of course the Heads response both in Scotland and England was ‘I’m the King of the castle’. Perhaps understandable ( we don’t want pesky parents telling us what to do ) , but rather socially and legally unsophisticated.