Corporal punishment occupied a significant place in the disciplinary life of many British schools during the years examined in...
The principal findings of this study may now be brought together. First: Practice Varied Enormously There was no uniform...
The temptation when writing about school punishment is to concentrate upon the dramatic. That would produce a distorted history....
By the opening years of the 1970s, corporal punishment remained familiar in many of the schools represented in this...
Schools themselves acquired reputations. Parents, pupils and neighbouring schools might describe one establishment as strict and another as easy-going....
One feature of traditional school discipline which can easily be overlooked is the requirement to apologise. Several recollections show...
Corporal punishment was not always the first response to misconduct. Several accounts suggest that pupils were warned before stronger...
The first experience of corporal punishment occupies a special place in many recollections. A pupil who had previously watched...
The cane and slipper were not the only disciplinary methods available to schools. The survey contains references to detention,...
Any examination of corporal punishment must consider not only how children were punished, but why. The survey reveals an...
The number of strokes administered varied greatly. There was no universal scale applicable to every school, and even within...
The central question behind any system of punishment must ultimately be whether it achieves its purpose. On this point,...