Corporal punishment is meted out to students at school by their teachers, for minor acts of indiscipline or misbehaviour. This is done by caning or spanking them in public, which is a retributive form of punishment.
The governors are the agents of the Central Government because they are either retired politicians or the politicians who have been rejected by the public. So they remain loyal to the people, who appoint them.
Homework is, in my opinion, an integral part of any system of education. It is the practical part of what a child learns. I submit that if homework is abolished, the students shall have nothing to do after school. Moreover, their learning will not be enduring and permanent without it.