Blow by blow account.

The author provides an explanation of section 93 of Great Britain's Education and Inspections Act 2006, which became effective on April 1, 2007 and regulates use of "reasonable force" in school discipline and management. He notes that corporal punishment was abolished in 1986, but that reasonable force is allowable to prevent pupils from disrupting the maintenance of good order and discipline within a school; he clarifies that the force must be necessary, proportionate, and controlled.