E/PM6/2/4

Letters from schools regarding reactions to Local Education Authority policy to abolish Corporal Punishment.

1985 - 1986

From: 1985 To: 1986

Schools appearing to favour abolition of Corporal Punishment include: - Farley Junior School, Luton; - Whipperley Infants School, Luton; - The Meads Junior & Infants School, Luton; - Leedon Lower School, Leighton Buzzard; - Drake Lower School, Bedford; - Ramridge Junior & Infant Schools, Luton; - Warden Hill Infant and Junior Schools, Luton; - Broadmead Lower School, Stewartby; - Kempston Rural Lower School; - Willington Lower School, Bedford; - Burgoyne Middle School,Potton; - Meppershall Voluntary Aided Lower School; Schools appearing not to favour abolition: - Laburnum Lower School, Sandy; - Waulud Junior and Infants Schools; - Leighton Middle School, Leighton Buzzard; - Norton Road Primary School, Luton; - Derwent Lower School, Henlow Camp; - Linmear Middle School, Houghton Regis; - Five Oaks Middle School, Caddington; - Bedford Road Lower School, Kempston; - Elstow Lower School; - Lancot Lower School, Dunstable; - Lea Manor High School, Luton; - Brooklands Middle School, Leighton Buzzard; - Streetfield Middle School, Caddington; - Hazeldene Lower School, Bedford; - Maidenhall Infant & Junior Schools, Luton; - Springfield Lower School, Kempston; - Ardley Hill Lower School, Dunstable; - Haynes Lower School; - Ashton Voluntary Aided Middle School, Dunstable; File also includes: - circular letter to Heads of all Schools and Principal of Luton Sixth Form College regarding the adoption by Bedfordshire County Council of the 1986 Education Act which abolished corporal punishment in schools and “replaced” it with a system of exclusions; - minutes of a meeting of the School Governors of Norton Road Primary School, Luton; the minutes include: the Head’s report mentioning recent break-ins and vandalism to the building, a reference to a teachers’ dispute, and also a reference to Religious Education; - memo inquiring as follows: “the Governing Body of Houghton Regis Lower School wish to know the position the Head would be in should she be asked by a parent to apply the ultimate deterrent i.e a smack on the back of the hand”; - memo referring to the reluctant agreement of the Governors of Ramridge Junior School, Luton, to abolish corporal punishment.

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