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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Cyber Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Posts: 10,247
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Up to at least the early 1980's, it was legal to administer corporal punishment in schools.
Children could be beaten at school, for not getting sufficient marks in a spelling test.
My understanding is that that was declared illegal in state schools, but persisted for a while in private schools.
I never received corporal punishment, although I was at school when it was around.
Children would be hit with a stick (The cane), or a trainer (The slipper)
The aim was to make a permanent mark or bruise.
My mother was canned for writing with her left hand.
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13-10-2008, 07:26 PM
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