Boys have insurance against caning

When in 1959 a group of schoolboys at a school in Suffolk, UK, introduced what they called an ‘insurance scheme’ against caning, their story went local, then national, then global. Below are some of the reports.

Of course, their idea was not a new one as we know from these blogposts.

As published in Lowestoft Journal and Mercury, 30 October 1959

As published in the Eastern Daily Press (Norwich, England), 28 October 1959

As published in the Daily Herald (England) 28 October 1959

As published in the Examiner (Independence, Missouri, United States), 28 October 1959

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