A Sunday newspaper, reviewing the programme, commented that the experiment cannot work because (Quote) "in the fifties, the slightest misdemeanour would have meant being hauled off to the headmaster's office and being whacked several times with a cane. No television programme is going to build that into its experimentation." (Unquote)
Well, of course, they can't by law anyway! But I would ask those of you who took part to think seriously about the following question and try and give an honest answer: If the cane had been one of the punishments which could be used in this programme would you still have volunteered to take part?
This has been discussed several time before in the forums of the previous series both here (unfortunately deleted) and at the fan site.
However even if the pupils did agree to this it could only be a re-enactment and not really take place under the law today! So the humiliation angle might work but the physical deterrant would be pointless.
Originally posted by jockstrap: This has been discussed several time before in the forums of the previous series both here (unfortunately deleted) and at the fan site.
However even if the pupils did agree to this it could only be a re-enactment and not really take place under the law today as you correctly point out! So the humiliation angle might work but the physical deterrant would be pointless.
this is my honest answer yes i would stilltake part i think some of the punsihments were mentally hard but i think i would have been able to cope with the cane ( cos i didnt get told off much!!)
So Kayleigh I amimpressed by your attititude. As a matter of interest which three boys and which three girls [would you have been one?] would have been caned in your view.
I don't think there would have been three of each (boys & girls),Headmistress! If they saw one caned the others would behave themselves for the rest of their time there!
Originally posted by Kayleigh!: this is my honest answer yes i would stilltake part i think some of the punsihments were mentally hard but i think i would have been able to cope with the cane ( cos i didnt get told off much!!)
Hi KAyleigh
So would you have been willing to be spanked by the Headmaster if you had got in trouble?
Katie, lets get this right girlsa were sent to the senior mistress for the came if the headteacher was a male and to the senior master if a Headmistress.
So Kayleigh please ignore that question by Katie it is not relevent
Thanks for giving your answer, Kayleigh. I don't think it would put me off because I think it would only be used on the programme for very bad behavour after adequate warnings. I went to a school where CP was used rarely and sensibly and so I even approved of it at the time! However, many schools abused its use.
You said "i think i would have been able to cope with the cane ( cos i didnt get told off much!!" I think you are saying that you would not be worried because you would be confident of not getting the cane. Do you actually think you could have coped with being caned ? I would have thought that, to the current generation, the prospect of corporal punishment at school must seem totally Dickensian and barbaric, and it must be hard for ant teenager today to believe that it still went on up to about 20 years ago.
You said "i think i would have been able to cope with the cane ( cos i didnt get told off much!!" I think you are saying that you would not be worried because you would be confident of not getting the cane. Do you actually think you could have coped with being caned ? I would have thought that, to the current generation, the prospect of corporal punishment at school must seem totally Dickensian and barbaric, and it must be hard for any teenager today to believe that it still went on up to about 20 years ago.
i could have coped with the cane... i would have learnt my lesson afta a cuple of times i guess but i am not very naughty to wud not have needed to worry!
I'm sure you are right. My generation had to cope with the cane and we survived, so I guess you could too. But I'm glad its something today's generation don't have to deal with.
I would have thought that, to the current generation, the prospect of corporal punishment at school must seem totally Dickensian and barbaric, and it must be hard for ant teenager today to believe that it still went on up to about 20 years ago.
To those of us who lived through those times it did not seem Dickensian or barbaric, we accepted it as the normal measns of punishing badly behaved kids! And it worked! We all learnt how to avoid such punishments by doing as we were told; - and that's another thing we accepted we had to do until we were adults.
Yes, I agree that it seemed normal to our generation and, at least up to a point, it worked. My point was that times change and what seemed normal to us might seem highly abnormal to today's generation - although Kayleigh's response to my posting suggests I may perhaps have been wrong to think so.
