“The ban on corporal punishment came into force in 1986 in British state schools (private schools took a while longer: until 1998 in England and Wales, 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in Northern Ireland)” (Walter, 2016). So if you’re a teacher with a history of corporal punishment, it makes sense that you would keep itContinueContinue reading “Mark Ravenhill’s The Cane: “spine-chilling work of Fiction that could easily be reality.””