Caned for ‘belching’
Deliberate belching, spitting and punching
girls were some of the offences that led to canings, according to official
records that were later published.
This was reported in 1976 in New Zealand
where in one unnamed school of 601 pupils, 87 got the cane.
The details were revealed in a trade
journal for teachers, which added that there were probably many more canings
taking place but they were not officially recorded in a school’s punishment
book.
As published in the Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), 4 August 1976.
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I always find this kind of information and the analysis/breakdown thereof most interesting - an excellent find.
ReplyDeleteBut why cane with a gown on?
ReplyDeleteAnd why cannot we see the boy bent down being caned?
ReplyDeleteYes let the teacher take off his gown and jacket and the boy, though he's taller than the teacher, bend down, touch the floor and keep still until it is all over. Why are shorts beginning to have turn-ups these days?
ReplyDeleteYes, very curious. He is obviously a fast growing boy and his turn-ups need to be turned down. Or they put him into long trousers.
DeleteHe is taller than the teacher.
Delete87 lads getting caned in a school of 601 is only a 14% chance which is fairly good odds, interesting again that it states half got caned once with 43 lads getting at least another dose and likely more. Fits in with most breakdowns of punishment books that the cane was used on a narrow group and that once in that group the chances of you getting caned again were shorten considerably.
ReplyDeleteIf it was like my school in the seventies, only a small portion of punishments were actually recorded, the vast majority of slipperings (probably at least 50 a day) were never recorded.
ReplyDeleteAs the above shows if slippering had been recorded the books would have been filled very quickly, pe teachers would have needed a shelf to stack them all the books they would have filled.
DeleteThe observation within the article is that many more masters cane than use the punishment book so, if that is correct, the official figures are very much on the lower side.
ReplyDeleteHe looks too fine a boy to be done for belching. Something much more refined like accurately throwing a rubber at a friend on the other side if the classroom.
ReplyDelete'Come here. Bend down. Touch the floor. Stand still.'
I guess the reference to "fourth formers" receiving 58 per cent of the canings. Is referring to what we call Year 10 in the UK now. So that's mostly kids aged 14.
ReplyDeleteThat's the same year group that gets in trouble a lot still, at my school anyway. Lots of boys get very mouthy when they're 14. In the UK at that age they've already been in the same school for three years (we start high school age age 11). So they feel more confident about breaking rules.