Corporal punishment

[luckyeight]

Should corporal punishment be reintroduced to schools? Six of the best (answers) please.

[Tha-Flash]

No. Capital punishment instead.

[Lonnie]

No, the indiscipline in schools, is a direct result of the PC brigade, and lack of parental control,

[Fingerprint]

No

[laurence2]

No.

Parental control needs to be ''SERIOUSLY'' addressed, children learn/pick up from their elders, if wher a bad example, GUESS WHAT?

[Dassie]

Yes, definitely. You can't depend on the parents so the kids just do as they please with no discipline.

[aristotle]

Here's number six.
I taught in a number of schools. In one, every teacher kept a cane in their cupboard and most used it at least once a day. Behaviour in that school was far worse than in any of the others. The worst behaved kids were the ones constantly being caned.
Corporal punishment does not work in schools. As has been said above parents need to instill self-discipline in their children but they are often just as badly behaved.

[wizard69]

NO.The teachers that I had the most respect for werent the ones who felt the need to assault me but the ones who had the time and the patience to understand my difficulties.Respect is earned NOT demanded.Never understood the concept of beating children to instill good behaviour.

[raysparx1]

Does it work ? I was caned at least 3 times a week in Secondary school, did it make me behave ? in a word NO, I admit I must have been a real pain,but I can honestly say most of the teachers I had made the lessons so Boring I was messing about all the time, the teachers I respected and learnt from never had trouble with me,so it can't have all been my fault, my parents were quite strict so it wasn't down to lack of discipline either, one teacher I never played up, told me if I did I would not play football for the school,so I allways behaved in his class,but you get used to the cane.

[masterchef]

Parents have been stopped from diciplining their children in the good old fashioned way-it worked!

[Carakeel]

Absolutely NO! I spent a part of my education in an Ursuline boarding school and we were caned if we did not 'behave'. And yet my parents were told that there was a no smacking policy, which was a pack of lies! The only nun I was fond of was Mater Theo, a tiny, quiet little slip of a thing, who was incapable of hurting a child. She often rescued me from some cane happy nuns who delighted in taking any opportunity to lift our skirts and whip the backs of our bare legs. I found out many years later that Mater Theo had been put into a convent by her parents at the age of 11 because she was small and frail, which did not suit their aristocratic lifestyle. She herself had often been beaten as a child in the convent. For most of her adult life she traveled the world as a missionary helping abused children and over the years attained degrees in all manor of things, including International Law, English, German, French, Spanish, Biology and she became a Doctor then Professor of Medicine. It is Mater Theo I remember with fondness and great respect! I am proud to have been taught by her!
No child should ever be given corporal punishment in school!!! I do think bad behaviour in school needs to be punished, but there are other ways of doing this. Today's children sadly generally learn their bad behaviour and language at home and this is where the problem needs to be tackled first and foremost! Parents need to put more effort into good parenting! End of sermon!

[joko]

No.

Because some adults should never be given free reign with a weapon to use whenever they want on someone half their size.

A great many could not be trusted not to abuse it.

Besides, it really doesn't work...if the penalty of death does not deter criminals in america, then I don't see a whack on the hand deterring kids from misbehaving - never did in my school.

It makes kids feel mistreated, hurt, powerless, angry, ashamed, worthless, vulnerable etc etc - especially if they are being blamed for something they didn't do, or at the mercy of a particularly sadistic teacher - and it is these feelings that in turn make them behave badly in the first place.

I was once pushed and shoved quite forcefully by a teacher for something I didn't do and it was all I could do not to punch her - afterwards, I wished I had done and I vowed that if she ever did it again, that is exactly what I would do - she was an evil horror - you know the sort - but far from feeling any sort of fear, i felt angry and wanted to hurt her...

sounds daft now, but at the time my hatred for this woman was very strong

[Ward-Minter]

100 percent in favour of bringing it back. I had fagging at my school so the older boys run the discipline more than the teachers.

A good spanking teaches order, respect and makes a man of the boys.

[netibiza]

Yep, bring it on!!!

[Carakeel]

Violence only breeds violence in the majority of cases! There are plenty of ways in which to punish a child without resorting to hitting them but that takes working with the child so a bit more effort than just bashing them about!

[netibiza]

"Violence breeds violence" you say, well we haven't been smacking kids for a few years now and yet they are out there killing and fighting innocent people so guess it's time to bring it back.

[wonderwoman1]

i was brought up in a very loving home, and when we did something wrong we got a smack on the bum...it did us absolutely no harm at all and it taught us not to do it again! i'm not saying teachers should smack but if parents were allowed to discipline their children properly then teachers wouldnt be having the problems they are having now. children get away with far too much now because they know they cant be smacked for it and they play up to that fact. Parents need to be given the right to be able to discipline their children the way they feel is right....obvioulsy i dont mean bashing them round the head but a light slap on the hand or on the bum is not quite what i would call child abuse!

[netibiza]

The people that are going to abuse a child, will anyway, no matter what the law says.