Boy scout school truant needs a caning, magistrate suggests

 

BOY SCOUT TRUANT

Magistrate’s Suggestion of Caning to Get Him to Go to School

Caning in moderation to induce a boy to attend school was advocated at Southwark Petty Sessions yesterday [14 December 1928] by Mr. G. Bunning, the chairman.

Charles Young, who was summoned for not sending his son to school, said the boy would not go, and an L.C.C. [London County Council] officer stated that among the reasons given was that he would not get out of bed.

The father explained that he got his son out of bed, but as soon as he left to go to work, the boy went back again. “He is a very good boy,” he added, “and belongs to the Boy Scouts.”

The Chairman: “The cane in moderation will do him no harm.”

The Justices, however, decided to see the intervention of the boy’s scoutmaster first and adjourned the summons.

As published in the Daily Mirror, 15 December 1928.

Picture credit: Ogden’s Cigarettes.

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