Just the opposite. In their view, children are not beaten enough. They don't want to ban smacking by parents. They want corporal punishment reintroduced in schools.
Phil Williamson, head of the Christian Fellowship School in Liverpool, is leading the campaign. He believes that a smack is often the best way to impart moral guidance. He also thinks it is God's will, a parental right and part of the answer to the disciplinary problems in British schools.
He prefers to beat children with a paddle, described as being like a small, flat, wooden cricket bat. The Times journalist points out that Williamson prefers to call it a wide ruler: "I don't like to use the word paddle because that has such alarming connotations".
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