§ SIR JOHN GORST (Cambridge University)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education if he will state whether it is a common practice in mixed elementary schools for girls to be caned by male teachers; whether such a practice has been prohibited as unseemly by the London School Board and other great School Boards; and whether the Board of Education are taking any steps to discourage or prohibit it in all schools.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) So I far as I am aware the reply to the first paragraph is in the negative. In reply to the second paragraph, I have no official knowledge that such Boards have found it necessary to pass such a resolution. In: reply to the last paragraph I have no reason to believe that any such action on the part of the Board is necessary at present or is likely to become so in the future.