[thechat] The youth today...
Ashok Hariharan
Ashok at MagicalKenya.com
Tue Dec 3 00:39:01 CST 2002
Hey Erika:
I appreciate your detailed reply! I am beginning to see your point of view.
I was in a boarding school for a short while -- corporal punishment
was very common there. (this school was originally started by the Brits
way back...)
They never used to use a cane, instead they had something called a "flat".
A "flat" looked something like a small cricket bat (dont know if america
has
seen one?!). Corporal punishment involved getting hit by the flat on your
behind.
However, in the subsequent schools that I went to, corporal punishment was
more of an exception rather than a rule --- though most of the time I was
the exception :o).
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|(BTW is corporal punishment something traditional for India, or was
|it a gift from the British?)
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--ashok
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