Master fined after caning truant
When an eight-year-old boy was caned for truanting from school it set in place a chain of events that led to a master being fined by the law court. Here’s how it played out in the newspapers.
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published in the Daily Telegraph (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia).
14 April 1946
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published in the Daily Telegraph (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia),
21 April 1946
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published in the Daily Telegraph (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1
May 1946
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published in the Daily Telegraph (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 6
May 1946
Picture credit: Damian Simons
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Such a shortage of detail that it's hard to understand the facts behind this case. It doesn't explain how the police/welfare dept became involved and it states that the mother had given permission for such discipline and had also refuted the boy's excuses for his absence. Presumably it was felt the punishment was excessive although it doesn't say exactly what it comprised either. Perhaps it exceeded the master's powers but again it doesn't actually say that.
ReplyDeleteAnd such a curious picture. The boy is being made to kneel on the stool, very painful in itself, and lean on a sloping desk from which all the books have fallen off.
ReplyDeleteThe picture is perhaps not so curious if you think who drew it.
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