Brexit voters want cane back in schools
More than four in ten people who voted for Britain to leave the European Union (EU) also wanted the cane to be brought back in schools.
The Times
Educational Supplement
(TES) reported in March 2017, 42 percent of those who voted Leave in the
Brexit referendum think Britain should bring back caning in schools after
the country exits the EU.
YouGov asked 2,060 British
adults whether a list of things that have disappeared from British life “should
or should not be brought back once Britain leave the EU”.
In total, 27 per cent said
that corporal punishment in schools “should be brought back”.
However, there was a big
difference in support for the idea between Remain and Leave voters.
Forty-two per cent of Leave
voters wanted to see the return of corporal punishment compared to only 14 per
cent of those who voted Remain.
Corporal punishment was
outlawed in state schools in 1986, but remained legal in independent schools
until Parliament overwhelmingly voted for a full ban in 1998.
A TES poll in 2008
found that one fifth of teachers supported “the right
to use corporal punishment in extreme cases”.
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