Court case dismissed against head who caned cheeky boys

 

A court dismissed a case in 1962 against a headmaster who gave two 14-year-old boys six-of-the-best after they cheeked a woman teacher. One boy said the cane marks on his backside lasted ten days and that before the headmaster beat him, he had been spanked by his mother and elder brother. In a footnote the newspaper reported, ‘Mr Collins [the headmaster] left the court with his cane under his arm.’

As published in the Nottingham Evening News, 12 December 1962.

Picture credit: Damian Simons.

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