I was at a boarding grammar school in England around the same time – 1964-71. When I arrived there, things were much as they had been for the previous 25 years. Most masters in the boarding houses (and, unofficially, some prefects) used the slipper as did the PE staff. You could expect to get whacked at least once a week. The cane was reserved for serious offences and some boys never got it. Many other forms of physical and non-physical punishment were rife, uniform and other rules were strictly enforced etc. In my last year there, we got a new Head and CP ended abruptly (and without any announcement). So, yes, I guess attitudes did change by the end of the 1960s, although, as I’m sure others will point out, some schools took very much longer than mine did to bow to this.
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