Bring back corporal punishment?

[FROSTY:Me]

Nope-just hoping someone gives me shit about the typo

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Nope-just hoping someone gives me shit about the typo

Thanks for the bling - can I have more for pointing out that the third option on the pole has another grammar fail:

Yes provided its withing guidelines

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...says the lefty hypocrite who wanted (wants) to punch my lights out.

True enough - you're a special case. Except I'd like to bash you for the hell of it, not because it'd bring about a change in your behaviour.

[FROSTY:Me]

Thanks for the bling - can I have more for pointing out that the third option on the pole has another grammar fail:

Yes provided its withing guidelines

nahh that was me bein a blind ol barsteward

[Swoop]

THANK YOU - only TWO of ya noticed.

Sorry mate. Some of us are polite and are looking at the bigger picture.

[FROSTY:Me]

Sorry mate. Some of us are polite and are looking at the bigger picture.

Sorry mate, I wanted to use something people were pretty emotive about.

But hey don't let my stupid little social experiment get in the way of a good discussion

[Swoop]

Sorry mate, I wanted to use something people were pretty emotive about.

But hey don't let my stupid little social experiment get in the way of a good discussion

Sorry mate, but from a classroom viewpoint, kids who thrive on being the centre of attention because of their behaviour and "antics" (throwing chairs at teachers FFS??) need a "real world experience".

[Big Dave]

Learn to spell, you colwn.

[Paul in NZ]

Maybe Kids should be smacked for bad spelling?

Now that is a golden KB moment.....

[Motu]

Cane people who can't spell.

In the 3rd form we were caned for failing maths tests - every maths period (5 a week) we had a test,those that failed got 2 canes.What did I learn? How to cheat,and how to avoid getting caught.

This came in very useful later in my life...without corporal punishment I might have gone to jail.

[koba]

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise
[disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC).

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L.
Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953)."

Blah, blah, same old same old.

Why not talk about somthing new, like that new Aprilia V4..?

No, Wait, that's a bike; this is hardly that place for talking about bikes!

[Finn]

True enough - you're a special case. Except I'd like to bash you for the hell of it, not because it'd bring about a change in your behaviour.

Take a number.

[Hitcher]

Corporal punishment is a game. It's a ritual designed to create a natural order of things involving that forgotten word, consequences.

Last century, when I went to high school, caning was something from which only limp fops with a note from their mummy atesting their haemophilia were exempt.

Part of the ritual of caning involved "calibrating" male teachers. Those who knew how to whack were afforded more courtesy and respect than those who didn't. On one occasion, a new teacher was deemed to be a pussy. Thanks to the prefects, he spent a lunch hour caning all the third form boys. This task reduced him to tears, silly man.

At the other end of the scale, one day in sixth form chemistry, the boys in the back row were having a chat. An item of discussion was whether anybody knew anybody who had been caned by Mr Anderson, our chemistry teacher. Nobody could. Fascinating. That meant there was only one thing for it. Our certified Iron Arse, young Brent, "volunteered" by pouring some teepol over a gas tap, turning it on and then, a few moments later, invigorating the pile of gaseous foam with a bunsen burner (as you do).

"Who did that?" enquired Mr Anderson. Brent's hand was up in a flash. "Staff room, now!"

Some minutes later an ashen-faced Brent returned. "How many?"

"One."

Mr Anderson know how to play the game and had figured out that he only needed to cane one lad very well once every five years to maintain a legend.

[DougB]

I still have the cane I used hanging on my den wall. It has red tape on the end (I used to tell the kids it was there so the blood would not show). It is called 'Whistling Rufus' and on occasions when I was confronted with an unruly class I would carry it in swinging it to make a swishing sound and say "Boys Whistling Rufus is feeling well today"

I seldom had cause to use it, near all my thousands of pupils responded to being treated as equals in the quest for knowledge. When I first started teaching, in the late 1950's I used it in my workshop on any pupil who committed an unsafe act. 'I will hurt you to remind you not to hurt yourself'
One of the rules related to leaving the chuck key in the lathe chuck. Then one day I observed a lad sneaking a chuck key into another boys lathe.
Naturally he got caned.

I don't believe that caning did any harm or much good but it did allow a quick sharp punishment for an offence, which was thensettled quickly.

They used to tell us never to cane while angry, that was the only time I could.

I also would never cane a lad who was delinquent, they needed counseling it never would do any good except relieve the teachers tension. Only healthy normal pupils would benefit from the short sharp shock.

[doc]

Disipline is all about Fear. You touch a hot stove element and it hurts and you dont do it again.

I would rather have some disipline in our society than having this present PC correct liberal thing that is going on.

However there ain't many male role models in this modern system. I think some of the next generation are looking forward to the antics they can get up to when they become a sports stars.