If only...
If only the UK government hadn't seen fit abolish corporal punishment in al schools in England and Wales from 1999 (2000 in Scotland and 2003 in Northern Ireland. And if only it had been decided that, so long as the cane was retained, it should not be used only on misbehaving boys. And if, in the interests of modernity and equality, the school uniform policy should have specified trousers for both boys and girls.
The we might have had girls bending over, with trousers tightly stretched across their shapely bottoms, to receive six of the best for their transgressions.
Ah well...
