Perhaps the most striking feature of the affair was not simply that corporal punishment was available. It was that...
There was, however, another side to the argument. Can something truly be described as a free choice when both...
Supporters of stricter discipline saw matters differently. Their argument was simple enough. Rules had been published. Pupils knew those...
For British readers, the story also highlighted considerable cultural differences. The American high-school prom had no precise equivalent in...
Ask a group of adults about their schooldays and it soon becomes obvious that there was never one universal...
To understand old-fashioned school discipline, we have to resist the temptation to view the past entirely through modern eyes....
For many people, the schooldays of the 1980s bring back memories of blackboards, exercise books, PE kits, school dinners...
One former pupil remembers starting school in 1983 and discovering that corporal punishment was still very much a reality....
To understand just how much school discipline had changed by the 1980s, it helps to compare those years with...
Not all corporal punishment involved the cane. Depending upon the school, the age of the child and the offence...
One of the most striking memories comes from a girl who was eleven years old in 1985. By then,...
Corporal punishment of girls remains one of the more complicated parts of British school history. Practices differed enormously from...