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The Spanking Crusader Who Was Beaten By Students While Speaking At Their School
In 1948, a British schoolmaster who was against corporal punishment, plotted to have his students ambush and beat a man who came to the school thinking he was giving a speech on the benefits of caning
Although corporal punishment has long been a hot button issue, physical punishments have all but disappeared from Western society school systems. However, more than 70 years ago a zealous advocate for caning children, who sold his own custom canes, went to speak at a British school with the intention of bringing them around to his way of thinking. To the contrary, it turned out that the schoolmaster, who was very much against beating children, arranged for the speaking engagement and had his students grab the crusader, hold him down and give him a beating with his own canes to teach him a lesson.
In the 1940s, Eric Wildman was a young British entrepreneur, who was also very much into physical punishment. He fronted the National Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment in Schools. He also used it as a springboard for his side business named the Corpun Educational Supply Company, which sold branded canes and whipping equipment for those who either…
