Do you think corporal punishment should be reinstated in schools?

The world is violent enough, we do not need more beatings.

Absolutely. It would cure a hell of a lot of the bratty behaviour in school.

With today's kids, many would retaliate. As a parent, if another adult hits one of my kids instead of calling me or my husband...I would have a big problem with that. That's why mine are homeschooled.

My kids are all grown up now but if any teacher had ever laid a hand on any one of them I would have left that teacher in a state that would gag the coroner.

No because with younger children it may cause psychological damage. With older students they might just refuse. Then what? That could easily lead to a physical confrontation.
There are ways to get the attention of students and it does not have to be in the form of any physical way.

I was given the slipper and the cane at school , it taught me a painful lesson and how to behave.

Yes but only for teachers
Some need a good ass whooping

No teacher wants the liability.

No. The evidence we used to outlaw it might come in handy -. Too bad you don't care about such things as education.

No -

we are past this type of punishment

Yes absolutely it would cure a LOT of disrespect and bratty behavour.

Not in schools. But for nonviolent crimes i think it should be instated instead of jail and prison time that costs taxpayer money.

If someone shoplifts just beat their ass in public and call it a day. They'll stop.

@EternityI live in the U.S. There are those who have actually bettered themselves while incarcerated. I agree with you saying there is violence in prisons.
Back to your initial response. Not practical, not going to happen.

No. It's barbarous brutality.

sametime but i think there are other punishement

Yes I do in the days corporal punishment exists in school. It worked kids was better behaved and overall more respectful

No, I had a teacher actively bullying my son when he was in 4th grad.

No. I think we need to pay for school supplies, books, computers, and extra teachers by having cameras taking video in every room and in the hallways and outside, and I think parents need to sign an agreement stating they will pay fines for every single discipline infraction.

If the parents are paying through the nose for their lousy children, you had better believe corporal punishment will be reinstated at home.

@HeadGirl Let's see if I can explain my knowledge of this subject.

One - When my parents were kids in school, teachers, both parochial and public, were permitted to spank kids. This was in the 1930's and 1940's. At that time, parents (my grandparents) didn't object, and often, kids that came home after getting it in school got another one from Mom or Dad.

Before my parents grew up, married, and had schoolage children of their own, the Board of Education (public schools, anyway) abolished physical punishment. This was about 1950 - five years before I was born. My parents were glad to see it go and felt it was THEIR job to it at home.


Two- Teachers are virtual strangers to a child. If I had had to suffer that indignity at a teacher's hands, I would have been humiliated and traumatized, and afraid to go to school every day of my life. I can't forget that schoolgirl in Ohio who got into a fight with another student. The first one got suspended, then they gave the other girl the choice of a three-day suspension or a paddling. She was carrying a double class load and didn't want to miss three days. She chose the paddling. The administrator hit her once - just once - but so hard she had a blood blister across her bottom that lasted several weeks. I call this unnecessary abuse.

Three - Not every child needs/deserves a spanking. I grew up with kids who were both abused at home or never struck at all. I had teachers whose specialty was humiliation in front of the other kids.This included knocking the hats off boys who didn't remove them promptly upon entering a school building, grabbing kids by the hair, shoving kids into a corner while holding them by the arm.

No. Not even in parochial schools. They had it in public schools here when my mom and dad went to school. Then, I'm not sure when exactly, before my sister went to school, it was outlawed there. My two younger brothers and I didn't suffer through it, although there was hair-pulling with the boys when they forgot to remove their hats (even in the wintertime) which I think was extremely dumb. My mother said, "If any teacher lays ONE HAND on my child (children) I will KILL him or her." (She went to school at least once for all four of us when the teacher wrangled with our outspokenness.)

My grandmother (Dad's mother) put him in parochial school for a year. He got expelled as well as spanked when he answered the nun's "Praise the Lord" with "And pass the ammunition...we're goin' fishin'..." The kids loved it, but the sister didn't. He was the only one of the adults who felt the pointer on his bottom as a kid.

Corporal punishment still exists in places, but not everywhere. Most of Europe and the United States no longer use it in schools. Those that do often don't realize their own strength and can traumatize a younger child or hurt an older one. Before it was banned in Ohio, a 16-year-old honor student took the paddle in lieu of being suspended. The administrator in charge of the discipline hit her once - only once - but so hard she had a huge blood bruise on her bottom for at least a month.

Too many weirdo adults to allow them to put hands on children. I think parents need to play an active role in disciplining their children. It's not the school's job to do that.

I think all this call child welfare on parents when they are disciplining their children needs to stop. I grew up with a carribean mother. I got the fuck beat out of me. I'm a better person for it. But I get that it's not for everyone especially this soft generation.

Beating other ppls kids should have never been on..
Be nice if parents did some actual parenting ...

I think that any parent that's against corporal punishment in schools should be given a lesson plan for a 7th grade typical class. She will then have to teach to the lesson plan. She will have no control options that could cost the public any money, like a detention of more than 10 minutes as that would cause the sub trouble. She would not be allowed to send more than 2 kids out to the counselor or the dean (1 each) as that requires a referral which they're cracking down on. She will be able to send no more than 2 to other teachers rooms. She will not be able to bribe kids with candy or toys. If she doesn't finish the lesson for any class, she gets paddled herself -- 10 spanks for every unfinished lesson. Of course, I would set up the computer so that she can take roll without a glitch as we want a pure test. But she would have to get thru roll herself. Since I have no seating chart most of the time, she can either make her own or trust to luck that she's named the right disruptive kid during the lesson. (Extra spanks if she hasn't I promise not to laugh while she "teaches". I also promise not to give her too many blisters when I apply the paddle at the end of the day.

Remember, when I went to school the paddle was an option in every school I went to. (6 by 12th grade). I got 1 spank 1 time for doing something dangerous. Most kids went thru without even that. While I concede that a fewof the teachers back then WERE paddle-happy, this was not the vast majority. I have had things thrown at me, been cursed out regularly, & been threatened & I teach in the good part of the district. The paddle wasn't used that much, but the threat of the paddle worked wonders.
Give me 2 months, a paddle, a hold harmless for the low-grade morons who are suit-happy & grades will sky-rocket. Homework however, except in maths will be lots less & even in maths would be somewhat less. The 1 valuable thing we have gotten out of this dumbass experiment in permissiveness is that in a colossal futile effort to try to make things as interesting as talking to their friends, we now have more modalities in use to put learning across. Other than that it's been an enormous & absolutely foreseeable failure. I REALLY wish I could do that test with the people who with earnest good intent have set education back 50 years.

It should be. I want to Catholic school. If I didn't obey the nun's rules I would get a spanking. If I would go home and tell my parents that the nun spanked me, my mom would call the school to see what I did. After talking to the nun my mom would be so mad that she would often spank me again. So I learned to kept my mouth shut.
Of course, all of this is old school. Nowadays the parents think my little darling never does anything wrong. He's right and the teacher is wrong. Should the teacher even mention even threaten a spanking to the student, the parents may sue the school district. Do you think that corporal punishment should be brought back?

I went to Catholic school and was spanked often by the nuns with a paddle. They called it the Board of Education. When you were spanked with that thing an education you received.
Were you ever spanked at school?

No. It used to be allowed when my parents were in school, but it was abolished about 1950's - and none too soon.

Corporal punishment (spankings) are the parent's job - no one else's. I've seen far too many of these newsreels where a kid is spanked (by hand or an instrument)and then dragged all over creation. Said kid is screaming in agony and pain, and teacher/administrator is standing over him/her, sometimes hanging on to a leg or arm and screaming back louder. This is a national disgrace!

We are trying to eliminate child abuse. What kind of a example are we setting for the next generation who often watch the news with Mom or Dad and sees such violence? There's been an increase in DCFS investigations where the kid is dying or dead. This should not be.

Punish if you wish, teachers - but there are other ways to go about it. You don't like to be cuffed around - so how do you think a kid feels?

Yes for sure.

NO!

No. I dislike the notion of hitting children - or violence anyway.

I don't mind spanking as a consensual game between adults - and have enjoyed it - but I oppose real corporal punishment, of anyone of any age.

I think we need to get downright medieval !
Because kids are feckng batshit crazy, and need to be shocked back into some semblance of normalcy.

Yes, definitely. My sister spanked her son in front of mom and me because she was tired from work and came over to take him home - but he didn't want to go in the mood she was in; he said "No" and before anyone could stop her, she spanked the living daylights out of him. Then she screamed at him, "Now - we're going HOME!"

"NO!" he screamed back.

"You want ANOTHER spanking?"

"No!" "Then come ON!" She practically pulled him out the door.

My brother said he spanked his daughter maybe three times in her life. How he did it, I don't know. The other brother spanked his son, but I don't know how much or as many times. I babysat all of these three at one time or another, and I never had to raise a hand to ANY of them - or any other kid I was responsible for.

Spankings given to any child, especially in front of an audience, gives the distinct impression you have lost control. It doesn't have to be your own - I would rather reason with them and work out whatever the problem is rather than hit them. Yes, I am against it.

In my opinion it should never have been made illegal. When I was growing up the cane - just the threat, really - was a great deterrent at the schools I attended.

I'm not optimistic that in this day and age, where offenders' rights are given so much credence, that corporal punishment will ever make a return.

yes and parents should not be stopped from spanking there kids

[b]No[/b]. I don’t think allowing anyone to hit someone else’s children is ever a good idea. When I was a kid some of the nuns were pretty sadistic.

Yess

Hell no. Parents should discipline instead but never physical. Some teachers get turned on from it and some pick on those they don’t like. Some kids are abused at home.

I think they should, I was spanked a few times at school. As the old saying goes " Spare the rod and spoil the child." How do you feel about it?

I think you'd guess my answer from my profile....

[i][/i]maybe if peoples very wrong in school

No. Not every parent believes in hitting children to get them to comply. If it’s going to be legal, it should be up to the parents themselves, not some official body. Not to mention the fact that teachers and administrators have biases and don’t necessarily have all kids’ best interests at heart.

Not that you'd be in a setting where as you said, (School) where you were punished via a spanking, if that were you today at your age, how would you feel?

No. "Corporal punishment" is nothing but assault and battery.

Public schools would never allow it and private schools would kick the kid into a public school.

No. Corporal punishment is a barbaric practice that comes out of a punitive puritanical mindset.

Slippery slope in today's world. too many variables involved.

No. If a teacher gives corporal punishment, the teacher has failed.

No. It's nothing more than child abuse.