School mag. survey supports the strap

 

Most pupils surveyed for a school magazine were against abolishing corporal punishment.

Offences that deserved corporal punishment, according to pupils aged 11 to 16, were bullying smaller pupils, cheek to the teacher, not doing punishment exercises, breaking windows, disturbing others’ work in class and forging absence notes.

The survey was published in the school magazine of Clydebank High School, Scotland, in June 1968.

It found the sixth-formers (generally pupils aged 17 and 18) took a solitary stand for belting for the following offences: lateness, shouting in the diner hall, talking in class, misbehaving on buses before and after school and shouting in the corridors.

Here’s the full report as published, including the response of the Scottish Education Journal, which said, “The fact that most of the pupils declared themselves in favour of corporal punishment is far from being an adequate reason for its retention.”

It added that a school was not a democratic community.

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