A complaint that two school teachers disciplined an eight-year-old boy using a Victorian form of punishment is being investigated. It has been alleged the boy's fingers were clamped into two wooden ...

The school should be ashamed of what has happened here, it is quite unbelievable. "These things were taken into the school to teach the children about the bizarre punishments handed out in ...

Stop ‘Victorian-era’ punishment of smacking, say doctors - Smacking harms children’s mental, physical and emotional health, ...

Corporal punishment was banned in Victorian public and Catholic schools nearly 20 years ago, but a handful of private schools still use it. Only one school, the Frank Dando Sports Academy in ...