One in five teachers back the return of corporal punishment

[Heidi Tiger]

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Originally Posted by Oliviaface

if a teacher laid a FINGER on me.

I would hit them straight in the face and walk out.
If they tried to restrain me, I would definately fight back.

What is your point here?
Because all it is doing is making yourself out to be a violent person.
Are you trying to say you don't condone physical violence against minors?
Because if so I would point out that two wrongs don't make a right and if a teacher laid a finger on you and you did that, well you'd probably land yourself down the police station facing assault charges.

[Chrissyann]

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Originally Posted by Oliviaface

if a teacher laid a FINGER on me.

I would hit them straight in the face and walk out.
If they tried to restrain me, I would definately fight back.

If you behaved in class then there wouldn't be a need for teacher to "lay a finger on you" would there. If I was naughty in class knowing that the punishment was going to be the cane, then I'd accept my punishment and learn from it. I certainly wouldn't misbehave again. And what would you achieve by hitting the teacher anyway?

[Detour. Derail]

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Originally Posted by Queen Crabbit

I agree with Shona.

BUT, I do think that there needs to be something in the law that means teachers can restrain pupils etc, if need be.

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Originally Posted by griddlebone

Bringing back corporal punishment will only give pupils a reason the kick the crap out of the person who does it to them.

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Originally Posted by Le Almighty Kitten

Corporal punishment shouldn't be brought back. I don't see the difference between corporal punishment and child abuse; both involve violence against a child.

There can be better discipline involved in school without the need for violence; sometimes bad behaviour does have medical reasons behind it, which compounded by teachers uneducated in managing pupils with issues is inevitably going to lead to bad behaviour. Also, teachers are (understandably) frightened, to an extent, with the rise in chlidren carrying weapons.

Teachers need to regain their authority, but that doesn't require violence.

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Originally Posted by griddlebone

But it also teachs them that if someone does something wrong they should use violence against them,also these days childrens parents would be so quick to sue schools for emotionally/physically damaging their children.
I see why some teachers want to bring it back though, i have those days lol.

Agreed to be honest

[XxXflowerfairyXxX]

I think the point is that teachers feel completely out of control when it comes to dealing with pupils.
Teachers can hardly lay a finger on a child to restrain them these days without a court case/suspention.
The problem is today kids have rights that they haven't always earned and they take advantage of their power.
Many probably only support the right of a teacher to use corporal punishment because it means that they can take back some power.

[XxXflowerfairyXxX]

^I think you basically just said what I aimed to say in a far more intelligent manner =]