Read the text again and put these words into the gaps

cheating, break, headmistress, deserve, independent, support

Rodney School in Nottinghamshire is an 1. ________school. It is also the only school in Britain that still canes girls for misbehaving. School’s 2. _______ Joan Thomas believes that if boys are beaten, the girls must be, too. Miss Thomas, who has run the school for 47 years, uses the cane on girls who fail to do their homework. She insists: ‘You mustn’t think I am a child beater. I don’t cane the children to hurt them. The cane makes the girls stop and think before they 3. _______ the rules. I was hit when I was a child and I think it made me better. Of course, the girls 4. _______ equal punishment. Unless we do this, it isn’t fair. Children often need to be punished and they fear the cane’.

Only eight of the 580 British independent schools use corporal punishment – and seven of them are boys’ school. Britain state schools banned all beating of children in 1987.

The girls from Rodney School 5. ________ their headmistress. Alice Kirkwood, 15, said: ‘I had the choice of being kept in for three weekends and writing an essay, or getting the cane. I decided the cane would be quicker’. Alice received three swipes on her open palm for being late. She added: ‘If you have done something wrong you should pay for it’.

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Her friend, 16-year-old Frances Edwards, was also caned be Miss Thomas for 6. _______ in a test. It happened when she was 12. Frances said: ‘I ran to my father and he told me to think about all the naughty things I had done without being caught. I had to agree that I had been wrong’.

4. Grammar. First Conditional with unless, as long as, providing that.