I Believe In Corporal Punishment

American parents would to @recipeforhappiness

@recipeforhappiness I wonder why?

@PaulDavies [quote]schools used to have rules about its use.[/quote]
LOL, maybe but they weren't often obeyed.

@PaulDavies Yes: that was certainly the case for me, and most of my friends. We actually feared getting a school detention more than the cane. Four of six strokes is blisteringly painful with a school cane, but at least we kept our knickers on.

At home, a school detention was treated as an insult to my parents, as well as an insufficient punishment, and it invariably meant a caning from dad, usually a dozen strokes, and always on the bare. No wonder i hated detentions.

@GailCob I didn't get punished at home for getting into trouble at school but I was caned at home for misbehaviour there. At home I could expect at least a dozen on the bare. At school it could be as few as two although three or four was usual with six being something of a maximum and, as you say, at least we got to keep our knickers up.

@PaulDaviesI am fully supportive of the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools, but it’s abolition was nothing to do with our joining the EU.

It was long after we joined the EU. 1986 in fact. @PaulDavies

@dunpender Totally agree with you. It was barbaric and when it was used it was widely abused. No other section of society is allowed to use physical forms of punishment so why was the teaching profession allowed to. When they had that privilage they abused it and as a result of that abuse they quite rightly lost it.

@harveyrider And fun! At least for the one doing the spanking.

"'Tis well your cassocks hide your uprising lust." George Gordon Lord Byron

@harveyrider Some UK schools exempted girls from CP, thus tacitly admitting they didn't need to use it. As they must have had other methods of disciplining girls that they had total confidence in, they could have used those same methods with boys. The fact that they [b]chose[/b] to beat boys instead strongly suggests an ulterior motive - such as being abusive perverts.