When was cane abolished at school

In the 20th century, the cane was used in both primary and secondary schools. Meanwhile, the ruler was a punishment commonly used in primary schools in the 20th century. The teacher hit the child on the hand with a wooden ruler. The slipper was often used in secondary schools. The slipper is a euphemism. Normally it was a trainer or a plimsoll. Teachers usually PE teachers used a trainer to hit children on the backside. The tawse was a punishment used in Scottish schools.

It was a leather strap with two or three tails. Meanwhile, in the 20th century, the leather strap was used in some English schools. Children were either hit across the hands or the backside. The first country to abolish corporal punishment in schools was Poland in No other country abolished it until the 20th century. The Netherlands abolished corporal punishment in schools in Italy banned it in and Norway did so in Sweden ended corporal punishment in all schools in It was abolished in all schools in Denmark in In Britain in the late s and early s, the cane was phased out in most primary schools.

In Britain, in the cane was banned in state-funded secondary schools. It was banned in private schools in Throughout history, until recently most parents hit their children. Try to avoid outside hyperlinks inside the comment. Help us delete comments that do not follow these guidelines. The views expressed in comments published on newindianexpress. They do not represent the views or opinions of newindianexpress. Congress slams Kangana's was 'bheek' remark as 'treason', demands Padma Shri be taken back.

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Even the Soviet Union gave it up by So why is England so hit-thirsty? One can only speculate if these days he would be made into a hero or villain by the tabloid press.

Perhaps it would. But given everywhere else has coped without it for more than years it was probably just as well that his amendment fell. In my first month as headteacher in January , HMI with responsibility for Independent schools visited the school to feel my collar.

He checked the school boundary, to make sure I knew it was secure, he checked the admissions register to ensure I knew how to admit and depart pupils, he checked the daily attendance register to ensure I monitored absence and its causes, and he checked that I kept a punishment book normal quarto exercise book, nothing fancy and wrote in it the details of the child, the reason and the number of strokes with a cane I had administered at one sitting.

I was advised never to hit a child more than 6 times at a visit. HMI passed over to me an leaflet advertising the supply of school rattan canes — he made it quite clear I could not use a garden bamboo from the greenhouse.

Caning rapidly reduced during my first three years, as I had to navigate through the expectations of teachers whose weekly spellings and homework defaults were supported by such punishments. To truly put the tin lid on any ideas of european grandeur I might have had, my parents were both from the Isle of Man!!

I and many of my friends where caned in school in the isle of man and now when I tell my children when I was your age I got caned for missing lessons or talking in class they look horrified. I now realise how wrong it was and how perverse the teachers giving the punishment where. I feel like making our government apologies for allowing this to go on so long.

Especially after all the research into child abuse. I see the old teachers now and then and I can see the shame in their eye or it could be fear. Of course, such punishment should be used only as a last resort, and in the case of girls, not when they have their periods but a week later in their cases.

That boy turned into one of the nicest young men I met at that school! In my experience corporal punishment was abuse.