Apropos of corporal punishment in the State schools, the following is from a Rangitikei paper:—Several complaints having heap njade to members of the Sanson School Committee to the effect that the head teacher was unduly severe in administering punishment, a special mee’iug of the committee was called for last Thursday evening, to give parents an opportunity of stati .g their grievances. These, after all, amounted to very little, and the committee unanimously concluded that it was necessary to uphold the master io his endeavours to restore the discipline of the school- The great proj blein with the teacher now-a-daye is not so much how to teach the boys as where to spank them. One mother is very solicitous that the master shall not administer punishm-mt on the haul; with others the ears must not be boxed ; another insists that the legs mu»( be free; whi e others are terror-stricken at the idea of punishment Uejng put on that part of Johnny’s anatomy upon which he sits, as it tends to dull his intellect and cowa him. There is only one way out of the diffii oulty and tfiat is tlj it Sir George Grey shall next session bring in a Bill by which every mother shall ba compelled to plaoa a mark upon that part of her youthful student’s anatomy that shall be tapu and sacred from the destroying rod of the school-master, and then leave it to the committee to see that such a part has absolute immunity from attack.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 197, 18 September 1888, Page 2
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251Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 197, 18 September 1888, Page 2
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