would bringing back the belt in schools help the kids off today have more respect for other people?

Answer 1

No.

But bringing back the belt in homes would.

Answer 2

Respect is earned and if that person is not shown any respect in the first instance, he/she will give no respect. I always thought schools were a place to receive education. Is punishment an education? It certainly tells you the difference between right and wrong but by using the belt the symptom is treated not the cause.
Like most people you or I know, their mother was there at their birth, from parents we learn the values of things, where characters are formed and it's time schools, government etc, should realise this. Parents are responsible for their offspring, period!
I'm sure if the parents were disciplined for their offspings behaviour, it would virtually stop overnight and teaches could go back to educating our children instead of wasting their time on correcting the failures of their pupils parents.

Answer 3

I don't know, but I think that the kids of today really need something, there is hardly any respect for people from kids today, I think a lot of it is to do with how they are brought up, if they are not taught to respect other people then they won't, it's hard to discipline children today, even we as parents aren't allowed to smack our kids, so what do we do to discipline our kids? Most kids have TVs and computers in their bedrooms, and so we can't send them to their rooms, as punishment anymore, it just wouldn't work, but I do think that as parents we should be examples to our kids, and then maybe they would learn to respect other people.

Answer 4

No, in an answer. Studies have shown that kids who are disciplined aggressively and violently become aggressive and violent. Using a belt on someone does nothing but make them aggressive and violent.

As usual, the answers aren't black and white, but rather more nuanced. Discipline starts at home with a child's first teachers -- his or her parents. It is up to parents to know how to discipline a child with love and in appropriate ways. Discipline does not always = punishment. In fact most times discipline can range from giving the evil eye (stop what you're not supposed to be doing, start what you are supposed to be doing), verbal correction, being guided to a different activity, being directed elsewhere, giving a child choices of activities. None of those things are punishing. All of these things give a subtle message of, this is not the best thing to do, so let's do something that is more appropriate and which won't annoy me or harm you.

Parents also have to model respect, first toward each other, then to other adult family members, to neighbors, to their own children, to their belongings, their neighborhoods, etc. Teaching really does begin at home. Kids who come from respectful parents usually have internalized the rules already, or they need only a few quick reminders, perhaps even a tiny pinprick of embarrassment one or two times, and they learn.

Kids on the other hand who come from disrespectful and/or dysfunctional families usually have NOT internalized respect, and it must be imposed on them until they learn it in their hearts and minds. And it's tough. As a teacher, every year I impose various routines and procedures to make my classroom run smoother, and just a few rules. One of my rules is, "No shut up." It's just rude. If a kid makes a mistake and says shut up, or curses at another child, or gets more physical, I have fair, firm, consistent and immediate consequences.

The best consequences start out as unobtrusive as possible. Ninety nine percent of the time, all I have to do is give a student "the eye" and they know immediately what to do (or start doing, or keep doing). Then comes the wide-eyed Gorgon stare, which freaks them out and makes them laugh a little, but they get on task. They do NOT want that stare again. ;) Next is verbal praise for the whole group, which quietly and without calling anyone's name, lets them know what they should be doing, and what's expected. Again, 99.999% of the time, kids fall in line.

The best thing you can do as a teacher or parent is CATCH THEM BEING GOOD! Reinforce what's good. Use praise appropriately when a kid remembers the rules or a procedure. Keep negative discipline light, fair, firm and consistent and to the point. Hate the behavior only; remind the child that he or she is a good person, but you don't want to see him or her doing X, Y or Z.

So no, to answer your question, it's a good thing that corporal punishment is long gone, and may it stay gone for good. Treating kids with dignity and disciplining with imagination and finding the good in what they do encourages them to do even more good. Unless a kid is a complete hard-headed lunk who won't learn no matter what else is done, then and only then, after all other consequences have been tried and have failed, could corporal punishment be considered. But it's my opinion that it should only be given out by a principal or assistant principal, due to our litigious society, or given at home by the parent. And the corporal punishment should never leave marks.

Cheers, I hope this helps. K, teacher for 14 years

Answer 5

Discipline starts at home. It's not up to the school solely to sort kids out. Parents have to take responsibility for their offspring being little d*cks. Some parents I've seen are no better than their nasty kids. So what hope do we have.

Answer 6

There are some children whose behaviour cannot be controlled by reasoning with them.I think a short ,sharp slap on the bum could help.I think 'grounding' is cruel,keeping a child in for days while his/her friends are out playing is wicked.Ask any child,& he will tell that he'd much prefer a slap.Never use a weapon, (belt,cane, etc)

Answer 7

i do no longer have toddlers. even with the indisputable fact that, I have stated that at present's youthful toddlers do no longer have an analogous volume of appreciate for his or her mothers and fathers as our era did, and that i trust it truly is because mothers and fathers are afraid to discipline their youthful toddlers. They keep in mind that there is the potential of having their toddlers taken away. i do not consider beating your toddlers, and ought to help the state taking toddlers who've been bodily abused, even with the indisputable fact that, i do not imagine slightly swat on the yet is one of those undesirable aspect if the youngster is performing out and could no longer pay interest/or care about going into outing. it truly is all a count number of the diploma to which the ascertain is going. there's a particular line which ought to no longer be crossed. i trust at present's mothers and fathers desire to discover some thanks to discipline their toddlers.

Answer 8

no becouse you have got to give respect to get respect back. and if courpral punishment warked then why do kids still play up 10 mins after being smacked

Answer 9

uh...yeah. sure... not scaring the crap out of kids with physical punishment has certainly been the reason they are disrespectful... your "solution" must be the answer. How could the school system be so blind as to have not seen it before?

Answer 10

I had the cane across my knuckles in school for holding someones head down the toilet and flushing it, it bloody hurt and ive grown up perectly normal.