My friend's brother went to a private school during the 1990's that had continued using the cane and slipper after they had been banned in other schools. Corporal punishment is banned throughout the UK now. http://www.corpun.com/uksc9803.htm http://privateschool.about.com/od/profdevelopment/i/beating.htm http://www.nospank.net/caning.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment
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Joan Thomas, headmistress of Rodney School in Nottinghamshire, was still caning girls on the bum in the nineties.
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I was in a NSW school in the 70's. Ah, but that was a different generation, wasn't it? As a teacher, I have had a kid canned but that was in the 80's. I wish it still happened, I believe we would have far less problems in the classroom.
