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Date Posted: 9/03/09 10:52:21pm
Author: nelly
Subject: Re: fashions and bannings
In reply to: Peter Eveleigh 's message, "fashions and bannings" on 9/03/09 10:33:35pm

I remember a child being beaten with a "rod" when I was in the church - and that must have been 7 years ago - ish, so not particularly long ago.

>>>It was not fashionable either in the church generally
>>>or in society to rod children with a length of bamboo
>>>at any time during the history of the JA.
>>
>>I beg to differ - I was caned twenty six years ago by
>>a teacher. Now we can not only talk in class but tell
>>the teacher where to go with all manner of expletives.
>
>It was banned in state schools in 1986, so cannot have
>been fashionable or generally popular in the years
>immediately prior to that.
>
>What I am saying is that if you were caned 26 years
>ago, it was by then unfashionable.
>
>When I went to the press in 1984 and told them that
>rodding was advocated in the JA they got very excited
>about it and front page articles about this and other
>outrages in the JA sold well. They didn't tell me
>rodding was a non-story because it is the fashion
>anyway.

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Re: fashions and bannings -- Peter Eveleigh, 9/03/09 11:08:50pm
Name and shame -- Tom, 9/03/09 11:53:17pm
- Re: Name and shame -- nelly, 10/03/09 12:31:30am
  - Re: Name and shame -- Peter Eveleigh, 10/03/09 7:17:20pm

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>I remember a child being beaten with a "rod" when I >was in the church - and that must have been 7 years >ago - ish, so not particularly long ago. > > > > > > >>>>It was not fashionable either in the church >generally >>>>or in society to rod children with a length of >bamboo >>>>at any time during the history of the JA. >>> >>>I beg to differ - I was caned twenty six years ago by >>>a teacher. Now we can not only talk in class but tell >>>the teacher where to go with all manner of >expletives. >> >>It was banned in state schools in 1986, so cannot have >>been fashionable or generally popular in the years >>immediately prior to that. >> >>What I am saying is that if you were caned 26 years >>ago, it was by then unfashionable. >> >>When I went to the press in 1984 and told them that >>rodding was advocated in the JA they got very excited >>about it and front page articles about this and other >>outrages in the JA sold well. They didn't tell me >>rodding was a non-story because it is the fashion >>anyway.
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