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>> >>>The wooden spoon was still being used well after >>>corporal punishment was abolished though wasn't it? >> >>Strictly speaking a wooden spoon is still corporal >>punishment, of course (corporal is "of the body") but >>do I understand from what you say that the use of the >>rod has been outlawed? Presumably to comply with the >>law, but surely a wooden spoon is still a form of >>weapon in the euyes of the law? > >Sorry.. I was talking about the law on corporal >punishment in schools since Tom makes the connection >between church practice and caning in schools. I was >just trying to make the point that the use of a wooden >spoon for disciplining children was very common in >community way after corporal punishment had been >banned in schools... so it's not just a case of the >church following the social practices of the day as >Tom seems to be implying.
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