Should schoolgirls be caned?

 

From time to time ‘controversy’ reigned about whether girls should be caned at school just like the boys.

In a commentary from 1920 the writer firmly believes girls should be caned. ‘It would make for a sense of discipline, which in these days girls need even more than boys.’

Below that, a Dr Kitching is against caning girls. He says in certain cases caning was a form of punishment which involved serious risk. He adds ‘In the case of boys, the risks must be accepted.’

As published in the Sunday Pictorial, 27 June 1920.

As published in the Hull Daily Mail, 22 December 1934.

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