Six of the best reasons to behave

 

Nearly ten years after corporal punishment was banned in state schools in the UK, the debate over bringing it back raged on. Newspapers across the land found readers were always willing to chip in with a heated comment or two.

Here’s an example of one newspaper milking the topic for all it was worth. The Birmingham Evening Mail in 1996 published a page of letters in favour of the cane.

We’ve met the same newspaper here on the same topic, ten years earlier.


As published in the Birmingham Evening Mail, 31 July 1996

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