belting in Scotland, always inflicted in front audiences of other children, should not blind us to the amount of beating in southern schools as well.
survey of some inner London schools in 1976-77 revealed for example Bacons Church of England Comprehensive canes girls as well as boys at the rate of one caning two CYCE nearly throughout the school year, of chalking up an annual total of 689 canings in a school of 1,000 pupils!
Most local authorities mit children as young as 5 to be beaten, and physically mentally handicapped youngthat sters can also be caned in most The use of euphemisms such as "corporal punishment' and "smacking' should not distract us from the assaults which place.
Recent cases per- Kettering boy bone broken in his hand by a and cane; a London boy who was caned on the bleeding point; a Kent boy whose finger was permanently twisted by a Gosport boy overdose after a caning. severe physical often take include who had complain at all.
buttocks beatings cane; and took an schools.
These cases may be only the tip of the iceberg because most parents and students are too frightened of victimisation to investigated.
Nor do punishment books reveal the number of unofficial How such as cuTs, slaps, clouts with gym-shoes, rulers and T-squares - which are endemic in most caning Michael Rutter and his co-authors in their recent study of London secondary schools observed unofficial beatings in they lition much more violence would have taken place had observers not been present?
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