Readers hot under collar about caning

 

The abolition of corporal punishment in English schools in 1986 created fierce debate and nowhere was this more evident than in the letters sent by readers to local newspapers. An easy way to fill a page was to invite readers to comment. This was (of course) in the days long before social media …

Here’s a selection of pro and con letters from Birmingham.

As published in the Birmingham Evening Mail, 19 April 1986.

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