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
School corporal punishment of six strokes per occasion. In some cases the punishment is carried out in front of the rest of the school instead of in private. The use of corporal punishment in schools was prohibited by the South African Schools Act, 1996. According to section 10 of the act: In the case of "Christian Education South Africa v Minister of Education" the Constitutional Court rejected a claim that the constitutional right to religious freedom entitles private Christian schools to impose corporal punishment. Liberal regions in South Korea have completely banned all forms of caning beginning with Gyeonggi Province in 2010, followed