Do you believe corporal punishment was abolished in schools because they found out certain pupils were secretly enjoying it?

@Sharon What do you think the real reason it was abolished was, Sharon?

@MaryDreamilton `Some people were caned repeatedly. Which showed, as a "punishment" it never worked. Instead, it just taught pupils violence is the answer to most, if not all problems.

@jackieash I don't class corporal punishment as violence. There are one or two people who do, but they are in the minority.

@MaryDreamilton They are most definitely not the minority. That is why it was banned and there has never been any real desire to bring it back. Whether or not you have a fetish for punishment role play is totally irrelevant.

@MaryDreamilton [quote]What do you think the real reason it was abolished was,[/quote]
Beating children against their parents' consent was a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. To comply with the treaty, schools would either have to stop beating children or obtain the child's parents' consent. Headteachers couldn't bare the thought of allowing parents to have any say in how their children were treated in school so had to accept the only option left.