The ’60s just seemed to be a special time when everything was becoming more civilized and the more authoritarian aspects of life were giving way to something more democratic. But that optimism seemed to give way to cynicism by the turn of the decade. I noticed a colder social climate from about 1970, an increase in political violence, terrorism, etc, and it could be that cp followed the same pattern. In the sixties it looked morally unsustainable, headed for extinction. Then, somehow, it got a new lease of life. It seemed incredible to me that it could still be going on in the early ’80s when the victims would have been the children of the ’60s generation. Maybe some of those who were sitting cross-legged at the big Isle of Wight concert in ’69 were signing consent forms in 1982. It makes you sick to think about it, doesn’t it?
Wrong time and Wrong place5
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Corporal Punishment & The Gender Disadvantage7
That’s a point I often make to those who claim “girls don’t do the things boys got caned for.”...
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Caning from of the Times10
By this conviction, so far as it existed, and at any rate by the belief of the mother, not...
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Witnessed School Paddling17
Cindy Doty never got paddled by Ms. Preston, but she did get swats in Mr. Scroggin’s office. I remember...
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Why Corporal Punishment Has to / Had to Go45
Any form of corporal punishment should certainly NOT be like a couple of cases recently posted about abusive paddling...
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Chastisement Across the Ages33
In the 1950’s I am pretty certain that my three brothers and I experienced the receiving end of Mr....
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School Belt19
I recall one boy, let’s just call him William, was in Sixth Year Studies with me, i.e. we were...
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Georgina of the Fifth33
It was a small, low, creeper-covered place, built behind a sheltering spur of the hill, to protect it from...
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School Slippering in the 50s 1
In my junior school in the late 50s, corporal punishment was in use for various offences, by all the...