CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
I came from England as an exchange teacher and was horrified at the we (or rather misuse) of the strap, which instrument of torture is unknown in English primary schools. There cerperal punishment is only permitted on very rare occasions for very flagrant offences and is entered in a book. Too inanv entries are regarded as a sure market inefficiency. Yet I had no trouble with discipline in England. Here, even our little five-year-olds are strapped and whacked, not for any vicious tendenev, but because the babes have forgotten that one and one make two, or have let their baby eyes stray from the blackboard. 1 have since been to Ameriea, and. as Mr. ColeJhrook states, theee w no threat of corporal punishment there, and the children are happy. Onr little folk here go around with a haunted hx»K on school days, wondering when their turn is cominsr. and their childish chatter is full of alio had the strap, who jnst escaped it, to the exclusion of most other school topics. EX-TEACHER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 43, 20 February 1940, Page 6
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