Readers' views and experiences

Visitors to the Corporal Punishment Archive share some of their experiences of corporal punishment and offer their views on such questions as 'should the cane be reinstituted in British schools?'

Three-bar and five-bar gates. What have gates to do with CP? - read on and find out.

Discipline within the Lower School. Some memories of school life in the 1970s.

An experienced schoolmaster offers his views on corporal punishment.

A reader recalls corporal punishment at his comprehensive school and wonders whether the slipper and the cane might be the answer to disciplinary problems in today's schools.

'How I dealt with bullying': a retired schoolmaster recalls a time when school bullies suffered fitting retribution.

Getting the Whack - corporal punishment at a 1950s grammar school recalled.

A schoolboy's first caning is always memorable.

'Sam Stinger': another first caning recalled.

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