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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