Boys ask for more of the cane
A group of schoolboys petitioned their headmaster for more of the cane. Well, that’s how a British tabloid newspaper interpreted this non-story in 1956. The references to Greyfriars and the rest refer to the Billy Bunter stories and you can read more about them here.
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published in the Daily Sketch, 16 February 1956
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ReplyDeleteAs you say it's a non-story and the headline is totally misleading. The boys are not asking for more caning; they were asking for the headmaster to deal with caning rather than form masters. One suspects their aim was to reduce caning not increase it but unfortunately it seems that classroom caning was going to continue. TR
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