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  You could not be more wrong Howard. Your 'reason' is not more than a nice cosy excuse and dig at more traditional teaching and simply does not hold water.
  
  Not so many years back when Clive Hyde was headmaster of Barton he was a big believer in the cane being available. He used it rarely and mostly on bullies, but was enough to keep the lid on the behaviour at the school. If it gets used too often it can lose its deterance effect and become just part of the risks of bad behaviour and that is why Clive was so successful. The cane was abolished just before he retired and he predicted that discipline would suffer at the school as a result - he was completely right. The school has improved since the decline but at a great cost in time and money with all the so called modern interventions. Far better to bring back that cane.

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