ajm

Maybe, maybe not, but it could only have reduced the chance. Even if it hadn't been preventable by deterrent, a good beating after the event would help her to understand what the poor girl felt when she was being slashed across the face.

She hurt another girl and now she needs to be hurt in return. Then she will know what it feels like and her peers will see that that actions have (proper) consequences.

unclebuck

LOL - how New Labour. Bribing children to be good. I wonder what the little darlings 'who never do anything wrong' are getting up to behind your back.

rossyboy

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jackwrx

I remember my sister coming home from school with a sore red hand, she got the slipper over the back of her hand for not being able to spell February, she was 8 years old. So my mum stormed in to her classroom the next day, asked the teacher what was he thinking off hitting a 8 year old with a slipper for a spelling mistake. He denied he had a slipper, so my mum turned to the kids in the class and said "where does he keep his slipper kids" they all shouted out "in his bottom drawer miss" so my mum got his slipper and hit him around the head with it. This was in the 70.s. Awww the good old days lol.

Flatcapdriver

Yes, because the cane (or whatever) was a symbol of discipline and order which seems to be lacking in children today and whilst just about every parent will object to that statement and refuse to acknowledge their children can be out of control - they are just that.

Without a proper sense of discipline and an idea of what is/not acceptable then children will push the boundaries until they are forced to stop and if those boundaries are not enforced then they will completely ignore authority as a whole.

What you are seeing today is the inevitable backlash against children who are out of control and parents are now seeing a need to reinforce discipline via teachers.

scoob_babe

I never got corporal punishment myself, but there was the threat of the ruler across the knuckes / cane and others did get it however it was stopped when I was about 8.

mart360

Tiggs,

although your still on my ignore list , have seen your reply..

i have children over the age of 10 and one under the age of ten.

i firmly believe in corporal punishment. even if not used its the hidden threat of, that can be just as effective.!!

what we dont have any evidence of, is with all this super nannying teaching going on, and the naughty step routine.. is what are the long term effects..

are these the kids who grow up never being chastised, failing to cope when told they cant have it?? life is not easy, and respect is most certainly earnt, i cant recall any of my punishments being unjust, there were a few i,d question however looking back it tought me a few things that have payed dididends to date.

whatever happens the rot needs to stop, the teachers need to be incontrol, not the yobs

Mart

lubo

i totally agree that teachers should be given the power back via physical punishment......its not always necessary and its not always right but our society nowadays is going from bad to worse someone has to take a stand. Kids are dominating adults and that is not right.

dpb

agreed

Leslie

Corporal punishment should be used as a way of pointing children in the right direction when necessary right from the start when they are big enough to realise that there are things that they must not do.

It should hurt enough to make it unpleasant so that they will think twice before the next time.

It should be for a valid reason that the child understands perfectly.

Yes I have done my share of brining up children too. Later in life they always respect their parents for being guided in the right direction.

Les

New_scooby_04

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Who was it that said,

"Children begin by loving their parents. In time, they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them".

You'd be surprised how often that applies!

NS04