School corporal punishment the case of teenage boys) the clothed buttocks. "Slippering"—striking the buttocks with a rubber-soled gym shoe, or plimsoll shoe—was widely used in many schools, for example King's School, Macclesfield, a boys grammar school in Cheshire. In a few English cities, a strap was used instead of the cane. In Scotland a leather strap, the tawse, administered to the palms of the hands, was universal in state schools, but some private schools used the cane. Prior to the ban in private schools in England, the "slippering" of a student at an independent boarding school was challenged in 1993 before the European
Campaigns against corporal punishment right in refusing to be feared by your slaves and chastising them with words alone. Blows are used to correct brute beasts". However, according to Robert McCole Wilson, "it is only in the last two hundred years that there has been a growing body of opinion" opposed to corporal punishment. Jordan Riak began working against corporal punishment when he was residing with his children in Sydney, Australia. Corporal punishment was eventually banned in the public schools of all Australian states, and the private schools of all states except Queensland. In the United Kingdom, one of the earliest organised campaigns was