Quote Originally Posted by Lencoboy View Post
The smacking ban in Scotland, and the same one to follow suit in Wales some time next year would have been almost unthinkable some 20 years ago.
I have a memory of being smacked by the teacher in 75 when I started school. I was terrified, overwhelmed, and couldn't speak. I didn't answer when she spoke to me, and when I continued to stay silent when she spoke to me - she smacked me across the bottom and made me stand in the corner. Obviously she interpreted the silence as insolence. I was 5 years old!