One in Five Teachers Want the Return of the Cane..

[a.d.ivNonasNovembres]

I think strictly limited corporal punishment should be allowed. If it is not taken to extremes I don't think it harms people. At the same time I don't think it should be a mainstream thing. It should be up to the parents ultimately to decide if their children are placed in an environment where that form of punishment is used, there shouldn't be a situation where parents can't make that choice because all schools use it.

 

[TemperateSeaIsland]

I'm considering switching careers and becoming a teacher but classroom discipline does worry me and is probably my biggest turn offs for pursuing a role in teaching.

 

[Caduceus]

Neither is a teacher giving a child a 'good smack in the face' (your words) either to be fair.

I also qualified my remark if you recall by writing 'in some situations'. I was not therefore advocating physical chastisement as a general rule to be applied in every situation. However, I hold to the view that with some of these smug little so-and-sos who live with the view that 'I can do what I want and you (the teacher) can't touch me' a good hard slap would bring them down a peg or two. Nothing like a public dose of humiliation (i.e in front of their peers) to bring individuals like that to heel.

As to physical chastisement I can't think of a single higher mammal that doesn't physically chastise its offspring. However, I would point out that there is a clear distinction between employing physical chastisement and adults behaving like overgrown kids. The first is done to teach an individual socially acceptable behaviour (e.g. male chimps or baboons demonstrating to younger members of the troupe where they come in the social order); and/or to protect from danger (e.g. female cetaceans slapping offspring that stray too far from the pod/school). The other is infantilism.

 

[Judy02]

However, I would point out that there is a clear distinction between employing physical chastisement and adults behaving like overgrown kids.

If you say so.

 

[Lotuspetal_uk]

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[non-religious]

I got the cane when I was in school. It did little to curb my rebellious streak

Once I even got the slipper (which she took off her foot) for something I didn't even do.

 

[Lotuspetal_uk]

I got the cane when I was in school. It did little to curb my rebellious streak

Once I even got the slipper (which she took off her foot) for something I didn't even do.

This is what I recall from school too. Those kids going to get the cane did not alter their behaviour. All it bred was resentment in most cases.

 

[r21c]

I got the cane when I was in school. It did little to curb my rebellious streak

Once I even got the slipper (which she took off her foot) for something I didn't even do.

Thats just disgusting, the old ways of the old world. And jesus and that lot came from it too. Look at the world today.

 

[Lotuspetal_uk]

Thats just disgusting, the old ways of the old world. And jesus and that lot came from it too. Look at the world today.

Can't quite picture Jesus in the same vain as my old history teacher










Nope..........sorry....