The cane at school. But one form of coercive, often painf...
The cane at school. But one form of coercive, often painful, physical contact from teacher It’s hard to believe but a whole swathe of the British population, still very much alive today, was legally beaten by teachers with canes, gym shoes, In the mid-20th century, discipline and punishment in English schools was relatively benign. But . The cane was a stick of bamboo, rattan, or birch, usually about a metre It ended in state schools in 1986, but rich kids could still enjoy the full panoply of belts, paddles, whips and canes in their private establishments. The ages are not noted in If children 'misbehaved' at school they may have been subjected to several (or more) lashes from the cane or a ruler on the backs of their hands. Although such clear cases of excessive beatings may be rare, there is no doubt that caning in British schools is almost as prevalent as it was during the 19th century. It was called getting the cane, the cane being 'A Yank at schools gets six of the best', 'Son of Actor Gets Whipped Like the Rest', press reports on school corporal punishment, UK, Mar 1958 Newsroom Corporal punishment at school: the origins of its abolition in the United Kingdom The case “Campbell and Cosans v. Corporal In the 1960s, school discipline was swift, visible, and largely unquestioned. Now this boy had escaped being beaten at school for three years. Learn how the cane was the preferred punishment of most boys at a British public school in the 1960s, and how it was used for various misdemeanours or lack of common sense. Ask any student from that era what happened when they stepped Strathclyde Region was made of sterner stuff and in 1979 became the first Scottish council to ban corporal punishment in its residential children’s centres, which included two List D schools - at least Nearly half of parents of secondary school children say corporal punishment such as the cane or slipper should be reintroduced, a survey suggests. When I was a child I went to school in South Africa. Find out why the cane Information, history and links on disciplinary caning, slippering and strapping in schools in England and Wales. Despite the fact that corporal punishment in schools has been officially banned in countries such as South Africa since 1996, it continues to be prevalent in Victorian School Shop The Cane Every teacher had a cane, with which to punish children. But one form of coercive, often painful, physical contact from teacher to pupil survives. Was the ban welcome? Getting the strap at school - a harmless rite of passage or an awful abuse of power? Produced by Justin Gregory. At school, the teachers would hit us. the UK” led to the abolition of When I began working as a supply teacher at a girls’ school in east London, I would see people wandering around the school carrying canes. Corporal punishment was a constant feature of 1970s schools reducing children to a terrorised state as TV historian Tony McMahon remembers One boy came to school at the end of the holidays and complained that he had been beaten by his father during the holidays. I was horrified that the cane was being Hastingleigh and Elmsted School "The Punishment Book" This table lists a fraction of the punishments meted out to pupils as an example of school discipline in the early 1900s. The days of being caned at school are long behind us. This was 1968. This was the late 1970s. It was widely believed that corporal punishment would maintain discipline. Various emails have told me that boys were occasionally caned, but punishment was generally limited to As the name suggests, it is the record of punishments administered in the school, but it only refers specifically to the use of the cane.