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No to the Cane
On May 17, 1972, ten thousand British kids walked out of school to protest corporal punishment — and force authorities to change the law.
Owen Emmerson is a doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, researching childhood and the emotion of corporal punishment in twentieth-century Britain.
On May 17, 1972, ten thousand British kids walked out of school to protest corporal punishment — and force authorities to change the law.