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Lady doth protest too much, Me Thinks
from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
(d:
23 April 1616) |
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This picture is a puzzle. The general
consensus in the 1960s was that the caning of girls had almost
completely faded out. Yet this picture of girls protesting
against it was widely published in the newspapers. Were they
subject to the cane or were they protesting on behalf of the
their boyfriends? Perhaps, the frivolous comment would be to say
that they should all return to their class-rooms or have a taste
of the cane? But the story below suggests something else was
going on. We were girls actually caned for longer than most
people believed? |
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This story, by Bruce Kemble, the legendary
Daily Express education correspondent, was published in 1991. So the
caning of girls was around but it was fading out. But it makes
interesting reading anyway. |
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