Caning experiment
Sir,—Ross. Lindsay's letter (October 20) is very funny. It was not so funny when my son frequently came home from school, close to tears, because not he but his class-mates were caned. He told me he could hear the lashes in the corridor and he saw the red marks on the boys’ legs when he entered the classroom. My son was not used to violence; it made him sick. There was one boy in his class who was caned every day because he was “a nuisance." After my own investigation, I found that this boy had an unhappy home, his parents were divorced, his own mother had left him and his stepmother was not much older than the boy himself.—Yours, etc.,—E. WEBSTER. October 26, 1981.
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