Pupils vote against the cane

 

Probably unsurprisingly, pupils at a comprehensive school in England voted against corporal punishment during a ‘mock election’ in 1983.

The headmaster who still used the cane (it became illegal in the UK in 1987) said he’d think about the result.

As published in the Northern Echo (Darlington), 16 June 1983

Picture credit: Generated by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

 

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