News Chronicle, London, 22 March 1939 – Says Judge “A CHILD of 12 who wants to have her hair permanently waved should be taken over her mother’s knee and spanked,” said Judge Richardson at the County Court at Sunderland yesterday when a claim against a hairdresser for negligence came before him. Click to enlarge “If […]
Rail Thrill ‘Worth Cane’
The adventure of the boys — Charlie Parsley and Ronnie Parsons, of Wood Green — really began when they saw the film “Crime School,” in which “The Dead End Kids” stow themselves away aboard a train.TWO schoolboys of thirteen were caned yesterday for playing truant. But, as they say, it was worth it, because they […]
Damages for “Will Hay” Schoolboy
Daily Mirror, London, 17 May 1938, p.10 A BOY of eleven who was punished by a schoolmaster for flicking pellets at him — “Just like Will Hay,” the boy said — gave evidence at Wandsworth County Court yesterday in cross-actions. All the boys, he said, were doing the same, but he was the only one […]
Headmaster Says Corporal Punishment is Best
Evening Standard, London, 25 May 1937 A HEADMASTER said at Epsom Juvenile Court to-day that he thought the old-fashioned discipline with corporal punishment was best. He was giving evidence in a case in which a 12-year-old boy was summoned for stealing a bicycle. It was stated that the boy was continually committing acts of dishonesty. […]
Boys Laugh, When Caned by Women, to ‘Keep Their Dignity’
Daily Mirror, London, 14 April 1936, p.4 Easter Talkies Men Teachers Demanded for Them “If he acknowledged that he would have lost the dignity and recognition of his own importance.””In schools where headmistresses inflict corporal punishment on boys of eight or nine, the lads all go out laughing at the punishment they receive because not […]
The Caning of Girls
British Medical Journal, 16 February 1935 Correspondence It is impossible to believe that the medical department of the Board has not formed any opinion on a medical question so obviously affecting the health of the school child, and it seems to me to be very curious that when so many memoranda and annual reports are […]
Corporal Punishment for Girls 4
British Medical Journal, London, 19 January 1935, p.130 Correspondence A few months ago two little girls, smiling happily, entered my consulting room, one of them having some trivial complaint. When I spoke to the child, who was 10 years of age, she suddenly burst into hysterical and causeless sobbing. Evidently her emotions were on a […]