Ban on Caning Led to Indiscipline

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The scrapping of the cane has led to a deterioration in children’s behaviour at school, according to teachers.


Sanctions available to schools since corporal punishment was abolished 25 years ago are ‘totally inadequate’ at reasserting authority in the classroom and lack the same deterrent effect, they said yesterday.

Laws forbidding state schools from using the cane or slipper to discipline pupils were introduced in The United Kingdom in 1987, and a decade later in independent schools. When corporal punishment was abolished nothing was put in its place that had equivalent deterrent powers,’ said Julian Perfect, a teacher from London.


How dumb is that?
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