Should parents opt out of school canings?
In 1983 the British Secretary of State for
Education floated the idea that rather than abolish caning in schools
altogether individual parents would be given the right to decide whether their
child could be punished this way.
It is fair to say the newspapers didn’t
think much of the ide. Here are a few examples ….
The proposal did not go ahead and corporal
punishment was abolished in state schools in 1987.
As
published in the South Wales Echo (Cardiff, UK) · 29 July 1983
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published in the Southern Evening Echo (Southampton), 30 July 1983
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published in the Chester Chronicle, 2 December 1983
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published in the Rochdale Observer, 17 November 1984
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You should not cane with a jacket and gown on! And the boy needs to bent over more, not looking at the camera!
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And waistcoat!
DeleteYet another absolutely fascinating comparison with the modern world. 1980s in the UK, a polite suggestion is made, that perhaps parents should be consulted before their kids are caned. TOTAL CHAOS ENSUES! *obviously* (to parents at the time) it's a dumb idea!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, here in the 1990s, and the whole 21st century. In the USA, everyone pretends that school corporal punishment is banned, when it's not. In the places where they admit that it's not banned, they immediately say "well actually parents can say they don't want their kid spanked, so it doesn't count". Which has exactly the same problem! Although, perhaps it's not a problem?
Clearly not a workable idea with too many conflicted teachers and parents as a result. I had left school many years earlier but I know with certainty, had such an option been presented back then, which option my father would have signed and l most definitely wouldn't have been part of any discussion about it either.
ReplyDeleteA boy that size needs to be in trousers not shorts.
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