2006-11-27 22:47:28 · 17 answers · asked by James T 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Maybe it's the parents who should be caned. We have gone from one extreme to the other, from over harsh discipline to none at all.
We need to find a middle path were unacceptable behaviour is clearly defined with the certain knowledge that something unpleasant will happen if they do it. ie hard work in an difficult environment. Years of child centred education has produced a generation of soft, weak, useless young adults who are only capable of wining and complaining, getting drunk and fighting and vomiting in the streets. And the boys are just as bad :)
2006-11-28 00:26:15 · answer #1 · answered by mick t 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was at school we got caned, punched, slapped and thrown against the wall by some teachers. This was in the 1960's.
In one incident 5 boys in their gym kit were throwing snowballs against a wall.
Throwing snowballs was against the rules.
What did they do?
They marched all of us (about 40) in to the hall and caned us all. There was no attempt to find out who the culprits were, not that throwing snowballs against a wall should have been a caneable offence anyway!
The word 'nazi' comes to mind.
Now I am not against discipline, but it has to be administered properly and in a DISCIPLINED manner. There has to be a code. Some, not all, of the teachers were nothing but brutes and this was at a comprehensive school in Leeds. (Allerton Grange.)
So it seems that the pendulum always swings too far. Certainly there is a problem with young brats maturing in to full grown yobs today.
Is it the parents? Partly. Television and movies having a wrong influence? Certainly.
The labour government is certainly part of the problem too. It would require an act of political will to bring it back and I don't think that will happen.
So things will just continue to get worse while we neglect children by failing to correct and discipline them in this manner
2006-11-27 23:44:47 · answer #2 · answered by George 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. One thing we do need is a alternative to it. I was caned at school and at times I thought that the person doing was getting pleasure from it. Perhaps if local education authorities appointed a well vetted office up for corporal punishment it may have a affect. However the do gooders will cry human rights.
2006-11-27 22:54:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes it should be back...
Although the punnishment should not be done by the teachers.
There should be a new 'Dicipline Department' that purely deals with all aspects of behaviour in school.
I was cained several times at school and sometimes the aggression in the teacher was obvious.
If now as an adult I harm another person, who is responsible?
Me totally?
Or is it a symtom of being cained by my elders when I was young?
If the argument for not caining is true, then it would now not be my fault if I now did harm another person.
The do gooders cannot have it both ways... It does not work!
Bring back caining and bring back respect.
2006-11-28 00:20:30 · answer #4 · answered by Tony G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure why not,,some politicians get caned at Madame Fifi's whilst wearing pink tutu's and frogman flippers most nights of the week and they always go back for more!!
2006-11-27 23:11:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why not? didnt do us any harm in fact it made children respect the teacher more , the trouble these days is people not being able to punish thier childen the old fashioned way(a clip round the ear or a smack) nerver did me any harm.When i hear how children speak to thier parents these days makes my blood run cold.all respect has gone out the window i feel sorry for teachers We used to look up to our teacher and the police force i only hope one day it will all come back.
2006-11-27 23:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by kentishlass 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Oh yeah. But it should be used sparingly. You don't want a class full of sulking teens with sore bottoms. I wouldn't mind it though during the rush hour, I get to sit down and enjoy my quiet ride home on the bus.
2006-11-27 22:55:59 · answer #7 · answered by Eddie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thats a bit old fashioned and the kid would probably shoot you before you got a chance to hit him anyway, what about knee capping much more effective
2006-11-27 22:52:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no,i bet you never felt it either,its like this if i bump into the teacher that gave me it for nothing breaking 2 fingers,when i was 10 yr old,ill put him in hospital,oh i never cried but i did become a very violent person and still am
2006-11-27 22:49:22 · answer #9 · answered by del 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah. But something like that is never going to happen is it? We live in a ridiculously PC society where everything is taken to the extreme. It's a shame though.
2006-11-27 22:49:56 · answer #10 · answered by Misha-non-penguin 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋