THIS Sunday school students from all over Britain will be abolition punishment in schools.
The demonstration is organised by the National Union Students. follows mounting action by school students against the cane, uniformsand the denial of democratic nguts al school.
Thereisa widely held myth that the Tillic and bet are on the decline fact Britain's schools are amongst the most barbaric in the world when it comes to discipline.
A few figures-easily demonstrate this:
1958 year-olds were at secondary schools in England and 1977 In Scotland over a third of all boys aged 12 to 15 were beaten once a fortnight on average.
1976 The new Avon Education Authority re-introduced MILO schools for the first time sine 1905.
1976 Newcastle authority introduced a heavier strap.
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Eighty per cent of alf 161933 Wales using corporal movement, corporal infant Lancis Sunday I July.
the Post Office as a Private Member's Bill introduced in the last parliamentary session, which called for a ban on the cane in homes for the mentally and handicapped, The reality is that the use of the cane and belt is increasing in British schools. Discipline is an easy anwer to of controlling school students who know fhey'l be on the they're taught The cane and belt are hangovers Britain's imperial The South of Ireland is the only other state in Europe to use them. In most other they went out with the thumbscrews and the rack: Austria Holland Only one country ever reintroduced them - Germany The NUSS demo is a first step in must be major national campaign to end this aspect of British barbarism for good. It deserves the support of al sections of the worker bot above all of those unions arC LIE defenders of beatings at school • Assemble Speakers Corner, 11am, newspaper. other African states.
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