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re: Smacking ban in schools loophole
From the OP article
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classes run by 'strange Christian sects' should also be covered by the smacking ban.
The corporal punishment exemption also covers Sunday schools, home tutors and other people who are considered to be acting 'in loco parentis'.
They can still smack children as long as the punishment is 'reasonable' - the same rule as applies to parents.
But experts suspect the real problems occur in madrasahs, although they believe it also an issue with some fundamentalist Christian Sunday schools.
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What experts? Or has that word just been put in to give it credibility?
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'We have no evidence the law is being abused or that children are being abused in these circumstances,' he said.
He also claimed that if the Government banned madrasahs and Sunday schools from smacking children, it would then have to ban grandparents and other relatives from doing the same.
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The Daily Mail would love that, wouldn't they? " Bloody bleeding-heart liberal interfering government, stopping us disciplining our kids! Who do they think they are?"
---------- Post added at 10:59 ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 ----------
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Originally Posted by Gary L
The chances of what? the chances that because it's got the word Muslim in then the loophole should stay open?
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No, the fact that it also applies to Christian Sunday Schools, probably Jewish part-time education facilities, and the chances that you and the Daily Mail have focused on the Muslim aspect. 
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