To cane or not to cane, the people speak

 

The question to cane at school or not to cane was, as one newspaper in 1979 put it, “a very sore subject”. The cane had fallen into disuse in some schools in England when the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) that ran state schools in the capital decided to ban it altogether in secondary schools (it was already banned in primaries).

Here, a local newspaper in Harrow (the town that houses the famous public school) visited schools in the area to gather views on whether they too wanted a ban.

As published in Midweek, 2 October 1979

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