Given what I have heard of from older relatives in rural areas, this is "in the main" correct. My aunt, quite old, remembers a time when corporal punishment (b

Given what I have heard of from older relatives in rural areas, this is "in the main" correct. My aunt, quite old, remembers a time when corporal punishment (being hit with a sturdy broomstick, or rapped across the knuckles etc.) was OK in the school she attended. It was always the poorer kids that got the corporal punishment... not the better-off ones.