Oooops!

[Sqad]

http://www.dailymail....-following-riots.html

[Mamyalynne]

Not sure it ever worked though Sqad, the same culprits were lined up outside the Heads office time after time.

[sandyRoe]

Perhaps a picture of Jimmy Edwards with a cane wasn't the best illustration for an article on corporal punishment. I believe he was a man with very peculiar tastes.

[Sqad]

Ladies, the point of my post was to suggest that sqad was not the only one who advocated the return of corporal punishment as would be suggested by the "tongue lashing" that sqad received on suggesting it's return.

[anotheoldgit]

Sounds like a jolly good idea Sqad, but it is never going to happen while we are ruled by the 'European Superstate'.

[Gromit]

What's the 'European Superstate'?

[jake-the-peg]

//It found 49 per cent of parents ... – believe caning or smacking should be used to punish ‘very bad’ behaviour.//

//While 53 per cent of parents ... are against the cane,//

How does that work then?

Bring back the cane to punish bad maths perhaps?

[mibn2cweus]

What they always told me as they raised the board of education was, "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
Cause and effect . . . it all went south with the 'uncertainty principal' it tell yuh.

[jake-the-peg]

It all went precisely south with the 'uncertainty principal' Mib, but I have no idea when that was ;c)

[pa___ul3]

whatever the benefits of corporal punishment in schools, I think the fact that, should the supporters get what they want, it would be re-introduced would pose it's own problems.
To have a generation of parents who didn't face it have to accept that their child could be smacked by another adult would not sit well with a hell of a lot of people!

[emmie]

didn't work then, won't work now. Teaching children violence is the only way,
sorry not right.

[sparkymick]

you don't beat it out of them - you beat it in.

[ladybirder]

I was caned at school and it did't half hurt. Didn't want to lose face so was fighting the tears.

[rsvp]

realise I'm going to get jumped on from a great height here but......have never understood that in the animal kingdom, parents/herd leaders severely reprimand their offspring/herd members for bad behaviour considered detrimental to the good of the herd/pride etc. yet all humans do is worry about the pschological effects of a smack on the bottom to a very naughty child. I don't advocate beating the living daylights out of a child but honestly can't see the problem with a smack on the bum.

[Euphemia]

I agree with rsvp. For example, surely it is better to get a gentle slap on the hand if they insist on playing with plugs rather than get electrocuted.

[whiskeryron]

Sorry to be an old fart but I will say it once again ''Having the cane at school for bad behaviour never did me any harm whatsoever''. Since corporal punishment ceased in schools this country has rapidly gone downhill, some of the youth of today it would appear rule the roost. I am sick to death of the do gooders with their cries of you cant do this or that because of personal liberties. I give it to you straight if pupils behaved in school they had nothing to fear, it was the bad 'uns who had the punishments metered out.Let's have the cane brought back & s*d Europe.

Ron.

[ummmm]

Nonsense. You don't know if it did you any harm because you don't know how you'd be if you weren't caned. Not being hit by an adult didn't do me any harm either...

We cannot be compared to the animal kingdom because we can speak.

[whiskeryron]

ummmm, rubbish.

Ron.

[notasyoungasiwas]

Agree with you 100% Ron

[ummmm]

Ron, rubbish.

ummmm.

[sara3]

"it didn't do me any harm"

I'll bet there are plenty out there that it did cause harm to.