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

There is a popular belief that that was the reason why. Your thoughts?

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gandalf1957 · 61-69, M

bullying was one of the automatic caning offences at my senior school in the UK under the headmaster in charge there from September 1971 through to December 1983. There were others too:
cheating in school exams
smoking (tobacco) - drugs weren't in the UK schools then leastways not mine!
stealing
truanting
some other crimes got the cane too depending on the prevailing circumstances.