School discipline did not always remain within the school gates. Parents might be informed when a child had received...
Few features of the recollections are more striking than waiting. The punishment itself might be brief. Waiting for it...
The survey specifically asks whether punishment was administered privately, before a class, or in the presence of another member...
No examination of school corporal punishment can avoid the importance of teacher discretion. Rules could identify prohibited behaviour. They...
Much attention naturally concentrates upon the moments before and during corporal punishment. Yet the minutes immediately afterwards are equally...
Among the most valuable historical records of school discipline are the punishment books maintained by some schools. Such books...
The headmaster naturally dominates popular memories of traditional school discipline. Yet the survey demonstrates that considerable authority could also...
Schools naturally distinguished between minor classroom misbehaviour and offences considered more serious. Smoking, deliberate truancy, stealing and serious fighting...
Not all corporal punishment resulted from obvious misconduct such as fighting, smoking or truancy. The survey shows that pupils...
The evidence gathered in this survey describes a school world in which corporal punishment could occupy a recognised place...
A disciplinary punishment always has two possible audiences. The first is obvious: the pupil who receives it. The second...
Pain was only one element of corporal punishment. The survey repeatedly reveals another set of consequences which are more...