These recollections raise a question which educationalists continue to debate: should academic failure ever be treated as a disciplinary...
Over the past few months, an informal research project has been under way examining recollections of school corporal punishment...
Another reader takes us back to the summer holidays of the late 1960s. While at university, he took a...
The Alabama prom affair attracted attention because it seemed so unusual. Yet beneath the sensational headlines was a much...
For many former pupils, the most powerful memory of school corporal punishment is not necessarily the physical pain. It...
By the 1970s, school corporal punishment had entered a strange period in its history. It was still very much...
There must have been a final caning in every school that once used the cane. A final slippering. A...
If school caning really caused widespread, lifelong trauma, why was it so often portrayed as harmless comedy in the...
Autumn slowly gave way to winter. The leaves drifted one by one from the great cedar tree, covering the...
The days passed quietly at Highdon. Lessons carried on much as they always had. The younger boys raced across...
For a long moment, the four boys stood silently beneath the great oak tree. Peter slowly read the note...