Corporal punishment

[ThePine]

While I do agree that corporal punishment in theory should help, I think that the majority of people, even parents, would abuse it. When my mother was in school, she had her wrist slapped any time she wrote with her left hand. Of course in modern day society, people aren't punished on the grounds of being left handed, but I can't help but think of that one crazy teacher or parent who messes up their kid because of something they do/are.

 

[Irridium]

I say that it should be brought back, kids these days are such brats its just sad

The thing people dont understand is that kids will always be brats. I know first hand because i have been to india where kids get beat for very little and the kids there are still as much of a brat as any little kid in places where they dont get physically hit.

And I've been to the Southern U.S., in rural areas of Alabama and Mississippi, the kids there are so polite that I felt like I was a king, and I would bet money that they were beaten.

 

[gupy77]

i think some of the people pro corporal punishment watched this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI
But i got to its really convincing

 

[Superbeast]

Sorry, I forgot the point of the thread.

I don't think corporal punishment should be allowed in schools. I think teachers need more power than they currently do, but having the power to physically punish someone else's child (since we can see in this thread how wildly peoples' opinions on physical punishment differ) is not the way to go (also, because it gets used too often. Yes, caning a child for talking will get them to shut up and probably not talk again, but I don't like the idea of another adult striking [usually hard if we're talking about the cane, remember I define a smack as a relatively gentle affair] a child for such a lax reason).

I don't knwo what could give teachers that power aside from corporal punishment, but it is certainly not the way to go.

However, my views on parenting are slightly different, as mentioned in my previous post (where I think parents should still be allowed to smack children, but it should only be a final punishment for the worst behaviour and not a day-to-day occurence), see that for details.

 

[Taylorcrw]

In some schools they still do it but the parents have to sign a contract.

 

[Superbeast]

Perhaps it's because the kids in India are beaten often (I take it that's what "beaten for very little" means) and therefore are used to the physical punishment (if used often I think it's abuse), thus don't fear it as a consequence.

If they have no fear of the consequence of their action, they are not going to behave. Ergo, the children who were beaten (ie, not smacked but actually punched and stuff) regularly misbehave in spite of the physical punishment but used less often (States) it makes them stop and think.

Lestways that's what I draw from the comparisson.

I do not think anyone here is advocating a full on beating of a child, or smacking them for every single thing that they do (ie, dirty hands *smack*, elbows off the table *smack* and so on all evening), but for that very occasional incident where just saying "no, bad" and taking away television for a week wouldn't suffice (ie ransacking the house).

 

[Delicious]

The new generation is always worse than the last now isn't it.

 

[kawligia]

I'm a firm believer that parents should spank their children when its needed, but its the PARENT'S job to do it, not the school's or anyone else's.

Don't touch my kids unless you want a bullet in your GD brain. If my kid needs an ass whooping, *I* will give it to him.

 

[Sindaine]

The problem you run into with that, though, is that some parents get pissed off and hit the kid because of that, or beat the kid bloody for not picking up their toys or something. Like my dad did. I'm afraid to have children now, because I'm afraid I'll react like he did, and be unable to stop myself from hurting them.