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Originally Posted by punky
Whilst everyone is falling over themselves to try and extricate the I word from this thread... Anyone actually know why there is an exemption in the first place?
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well i did read this morning on a different site (i will try to find it again )that closing this loophole would also mean that a smacking ban would also have have to be imposed on grand mothers ect aswell ,don't see the connection myself and i will try to confirm that
here you go
The corporal punishment exemption also covers Sunday schools, home tutors and other people who are considered to be acting 'in loco parentis'.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243871/Double-standards-row-Ed-Balls-refuses-ban-smacking-mosque-schools-avoid-upsetting-Muslim-sensitivities.html#ixzz0csClFW9K