Bring back the cane to improve pupil discipline, say parents
Some 49 per cent of mothers and fathers are in favour of corporal punishment to crack down on the worst offenders, it was revealed.
The vast majority of parents also want greater use of other back-to-basics discipline measures including detention, expulsion and forcing badly behaved children to write lines.
Even a fifth of secondary school pupils themselves support the reintroduction of caning or smacking.