As to the 1968 recommendations. Lyn , my S.O. was a Scottish teacher in both state and private sectors before the respective abolition , and did use the tawse. she recalls that the agreement was signed by the EIS and then ignored by their members, especially the clause that insisted that the belt could not be used to punish academic failure in the classroom . She wouldn’t use it for that, she knew many who did.
Did pupils sometimes play up in front of their classmates as they were being punished? It just doesn’t seem to be the sort of instrument that could come near to equalling the tawse in its effectiveness and as a result did the same pupils get slippered time and time again?
