School Pupils Urged To Form Union
LONDON, Jan. 30. Mr. Eobert Copping, the "no cane" headmaster, hired a hall in London which seats 1800, to launch an appeal 'for the international union of school children but only 13 children and 24 adults turned up. Mr. Copping, flanked by eight pupils from his own school, some of wiiom smoked and chewed gum, explained his ideas. Brandishing an assortment of canes, he asked why should people arm themseives against children with weapons they did not now use against criminals? "Adults in Britain have superior numhers hut we claim that equality of status should be given to children to make their own decisions and decide how their lives should be planned," he said. "If all Britain's 12,000,000 children joined the union they would be in control of the country. A schoolmaster would not be able to give pupils a clip on the ear because they would know the union would get tkem the sack. ' ' In the audiehce was Mr. E. A. Wildman, president of the National Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment,, in Schools, who Was caned by pupils at Mr. Copping 's school on November 11 when he gave a lecture there on corporal punishment. Mr. Wildman said: "I have come to be ahiused." •jjvu.mLiSsax-JMSi'— — ^
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1949, Page 5
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