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I Think The Cane Should Be Bought Back Into The School System

I just found this article from 2011 while searching for the part when David Niven talks about getting 12 strokes in "The Moon's A Balloon"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/jennymccartney/8770638/We-must-not-bring-back-the-cane.html

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Mick672

After reading that article I can't help but laugh at the comment I made (BEFORE reading it). Let's consider the disciplinary options that I was subjected to at school:
Detention. Complete waste of time, and half the time I just didn't bother turning up!
Getting dropped from the school football team. Looking back, I hated them for that, because the lad that took my place in the team got picked up and played football professionally for over 20 years (lower leagues of the football league), playing around 200 first team matches. And I was the better goalkeeper! That still grates on me!!
Corporal punishment. The slipper didn't really have too much of an effect on me once I reached 13, but by Christ, I was TERRIFIED of the cane. That kept me as merely being a pain and lively, just constantly doing stupid stuff for a laugh, as opposed to actually being properly bad.

These do-gooders can say what they like, but if it was brought back and my daughter ended up getting it - she'd get the same level of sympathy from me that I got, which was along the lines of 'you deserved it!'

Mick672

I forgot that farce of doing lines or writing punishment essays. Urgh! Maybe writing essays brought about my love of writing, and doing lines was pretty much the same as detention - I'd rather get the slipper for not bothering to do them!!