Bring Back Caning In Schools?

An emphatic NO is my answer to caning!

In the 1950's if we misbehaved in class it was either the slipper on the backside, or the ruler across the palm. All they did was sting, the real hurt was the embarrassment of it being done in front of the whole class. That was the real deterrent. Caning was in the pre WWII era and that did leave welts if done too hard.

I'm not surprised that a significant number of parents support the idea of bringing this back, the reason being that they lack the parenting skills themselves to discipline their kids. If kids are brought up properly, taught the difference between right and wrong, and what is acceptable behaviour, there wouldn't be so much need for discipline in schools in the first place.

The job of a teacher is to educate, it is NOT to be a surrogate parent. Although of course whilst in school they have the legal responsibility of in loco parentis. The first kid to get the cane will claim it's against his human rights. I sometimes think people should have to apply for a licence to have kids.

Corporal punishment

I assume that you mean Chinas' one child policy.

The one-child policy (simplified Chinese: 计划生育政策; traditional Chinese: 計劃生育政策; pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù zhèngcè; literally "policy of birth planning") refers to the one-child limitation applying to a minority of families in the population control policy of the People's Republic of China

'Spare the rod and spoil the child.........'
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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

@Mark - in principle yes.

@Bobby - That is the correct definition of in loco parentis. In the UK, Schools and Colleges have to ensure by law, that they safeguard pupils physical safety and moral well-being whilst they are on School or College premises. The drawback of course is making them wear goggles when playing conkers in the playground, in case a get rich quick parent sues for eye injury.

To make a child is easy; to raise one is very difficult.

Perhaps use a little JUSTICE? Both in the Schools, On Buses And More Parenting at Home. JMHO
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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott

Children are born into communities.

"It takes a village to raise a child." Nigerian proverb.

Children are born into communities.

"It takes a village to raise a child." Nigerian proverb.

Children are born into communities.

Children are born into communities.

Children are born into families. That family in turn, may or may not, choose to be part of their local community. The point that I want to make here is that, if the majority of parents brought their kids up properly, there wouldn't be this discussion about bringing back corporal punishment in schools in the first place.

So it's the majority of parents that are at fault? If that's the case one wonders who defines "properly"?

In the 1950's we got the slipper just for talking in class. Can you or anyone else see a young yob putting up with that for being found carrying a knife?

I don't know why you would have put up with it in the 1950s, and I see no reason why anybody should today. That I've said it before, won't stop me from saying it again, teaching children that violent acts are the way to enforce leadership is not a valuable lesson.

Having seen the results of the can't discipline classroom ...

The child who now is in control of the teacher because they know all they do is falsely allege an iota of discipline and the teacher is fired.

Now you say where are the parents? After the child called CPS the last time they gave the kid a time out ...

Not every child responds to time outs and the evil eye. Once they lose the fear of punishment ...

I'm not in favor of the cane applied by the school system. I'm in favor of the school system teaching kids how to be parents. Especially because there are more and more single kid families so the kids don't see from an older perspective what their parents had to put up with and what works as they grew up.

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