March 1907 Statement Issued by Mr. Paton. Click to enlarge We have received the following copy of a letter addressed by Mr. J.L. Paton, the High Master of the Manchester Grammar School, to the parents of the boys at the school: Dear sir or madam, — I have obtained the permission of the Governors to […]
Manchester Teachers and Corporal Punishment
The Manchester Guardian, 17 January 1907 To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, — The paragraph on this subject which appears in your issue for Tuesday last is incorrect in one or two important particulars. In the first place, it is stated that “liberty used to be accorded to all teachers to punish as […]
Birching at Eton.
The Slough, Eton and Windsor Observer, 14 October 1905 One had hoped that birching — or, as it is called at Eton, “swishing” — had become, if not altogether unknown, but little used at Eton. In no other country are youths, some of whom are almost grown-up men, punished in the manner which still obtains […]
City Education Committee.
Berrow’s Worcester Journal, Worcester, 18 July 1903 Wednesday: present – The Mayor […] (extract) […] Corporal Punishment. Mr Hopton moved that corporal punishment should be administered by the head teacher only, or his representative in his absence, and not by certificated teachers as the regulation provided. Mr Hillard accepted the arguments for limiting the infliction […]
Chastising Schoolboys.
Daily Mail, London, 8 May 1903 “It is news to me,” remarked the magistrate, “that a schoolmaster may not correct a scholar in a proper way. I have never heard of a summons against the headmaster of Eton, Harrow, or Rugby, or any of those schools for assault. The boys get swished for all sort […]
Art of caning.
Daily Mail, London, 9 August 1902, p.3 How a magistrate would deal with refractory boys. Mr. Webb thrashed your boy for misbehaviour, and ten minutes afterwards he ran out of school and climbed over the wall. I shall not have him here again until his father has thrashed him, and if he will bring him […]
London School Board
The Times, London, 8 November 1901 The weekly meeting of the members of the School Board for London was held yesterday at the Board-room, Victoria-embankment, Mr. LYULPH STANLEY, the vice-chairman, presiding. […] Corporal Punishment. Miss HONNOR MORTEN moved: — “That corporal punishment be abolished in infants’ schools.” She said there was a great deal of […]