Boys vote for detention over caning

 

Being kept in detention was a more desirable form of punishment than caning, grammar school pupils voted.

In a debate at Soham Grammar School one speaker said, ‘Boys now regarded the ordinary detention as a “pleasant dose of medicine.” A real caning was never pleasant. If caning did not serve its purpose it was the master’s fault.’

As published in the Cambridge Daily News (UK), 20 July 1903.

Picture credit: CP Services, London

 

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