In what countries do they go to school on a Saturday, and why do they?

@bijouxbroussard OMG that's terrible. And to think, they did away with corporal punishment in schools only to introduce something that's a thousand times worse.

As for academic assistance, we have special needs classes for that purpose and they fall within the regular school timetable.

@Crazychick We had detentions on Saturday afternoons. Worse or better than the cane?

@MartinII Worse, worse, worse, a thousand times worse!

@Crazychick My understanding is that it's mostly in private schools, and not mandatory. The option for behavioral problems is suspension, and for academic concerns if the parent wants to hire a tutor instead on their own time, that's acceptable. And of course, the child can repeat the class.

Personally, I don't think detention is worse than being [b]beaten[/b].

@Crazychick Hmm. Have you ever been caned?

@MartinII Hell, no. Catholic schools still had corporal punishment when I was a child, and some of the nuns were very cruel. Detention was definitely preferable.

@MartinII Not in school, they stopped doing it before I started school. In adult roleplay for pleasure, yes. But, masochistic pleasures aside, there is something much, [i]much[/i] more sinister about Saturday detention. It fooks about with people's weekend plans. Surely a caning is preferable to [i]that[/i]?

@bijouxbroussard In the UK when I was at school Corporal punishment was normal. Some Catholic schools were bad, but not in general worse than the norm.

@Crazychick But not everyone [b]is[/b] a masochist. And these are [b]children[/b]. The idea that some pedophile may be getting off on beating them is pretty sick. 😠

@bijouxbroussard I didn't say everyone is a masochist, I meant that no matter how horrific one may find corporal punishment, a Saturday detention is [i]still[/i] a thousand times worse.

@Crazychick I disagree.

@bijouxbroussard If you think it's a good thing to be forced to miss an event you'd been looking forward to for the last 50 days just because of a detention, then you must be [i]really[/i] masochistic, or sadistic, or whatever. 🤔

@Crazychick The whole point of detention is to take away something from the child they really enjoy doing......compare it to naughty step, time-out etc

@Crazychick I still disagree. You're free to think what you want. So am I.

@bijouxbroussard Can I just ask why you like the idea of being forced to miss something you'd been looking forward to? I've never met anybody who likes that before.

@Moonpenny That's actually a good point. Possibly missing out on an event to which they'd been looking forward would be incentive to behave.

@bijouxbroussard True, but too many people get the blame for what someone else started. Once that happens, things have a way of getting out of hand.

@Crazychick Because losing privileges is more effective than [b]hitting[/b] someone, once they reach a certain age.

@Moonpenny you have just reminded me that I was once grounded on a Saturday afternoon.Which meant I couldn’t go to the rugby.That was cruel!I would rather have got a hiding which was my more usual punishment!

@Crazychick So what would beating everybody accomplish ? Especially if you're also teaching children that violence is wrong.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales But did you learn from it?

@bijouxbroussard Losing privileges has been known to drive people to suicide. I don't think we should downplay the seriousness of that.

@bijouxbroussard Exactly! Corporal punishment was ruled out of all schools in Uk by the mid-80s. I'm not sure about the US?

@Moonpenny No....I can’t remember why I was grounded.It was the only time it happened.

@Crazychick One of my sister's classmates committed suicide after she was beaten in front of the entire class. We never forgot that.