Juvenile delinquency starts in school

 

A retired schoolmaster looks back fondly to 1930 when schoolboys knew their place. ‘They were informed, at an early age, that they would be severely caned for any serious misdemeanour: lying, cheating, bullying, theft. If they ever disobeyed that order, they were caned – well.’

H. W. Bailey goes on to say, ‘Restore the cane into universal use in our schools, give the policeman back his whangee with which he used to make our bottoms tingle forty years ago if he even suspected we were about to get into trouble, and juvenile delinquency would be halved inside a year, and practically stamped out in five.’ 

As published in the Birmingham Daily Gazette, 8 March 1950

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