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Four reasons why caning school children doesn’t work

Corporal punishment is institutional child abuse. [Courtesy]

When I was a child I went to school in South Africa. This was the late 1970s. At school, the teachers would hit us. It was called getting the cane, the cane being a long, flexible stick.

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