I used the cane and I now wonder if I was right to do so.

I was a teacher from the late 1960s until the late 1980s - a fairly short career as these things go although I was quite successful - spent my last few years as a Head Teacher.

Part of my job was to use corporal punishment. I believed then that I was doing this in the best interests of the children I taught and I'd like to continue to believe that. But I find myself in a world now where we're constantly being told this was bad for children and that worries me immensely. I just can't reconcile it with what I saw as a teacher. I saw it work. I saw it turn children around. I saw it help children. I really do think that's true. But I take psychological and pedagogical research seriously and I can't reconcile it with what I saw myself.

I am honestly horrified at the idea I might have harmed these children.

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pentacorn · F

you should be horrified, and furthermore, this post is fodder for pedophile child-abuse fettishists. you should delete it immediately.

Pfuzylogic · M

@pentacorn The profile has 12 views
I am guessing anyone trolling off of google that used the keyword “caning”.

patioratio · 70-79, M

@Pfuzylogic I joined this site today after it was recommended to me by somebody on Quora. I'm not surprised my profile only has 12 views as opposed to your profile which has about 11,000 seeing you've been here five years and I haven't even been here five hours.

Incidentally, wouldn't you be one of those 12 views?

I'm no troll.

Pfuzylogic · M

@patioratio
Verify your profile before tackling important subjects.

patioratio · 70-79, M

@Pfuzylogic I don't even know what 'verify my profile' means in this context. I've done everything that similar worlds has asked me to do.

And I'll discuss any subject I like. I came here because somebody suggested this was a reasonable place to get sensible opinions from people. I was told some of the opinions wouldn't be sensible but some would. I can tell the difference.

pentacorn · F

@Pfuzylogic it's a shame this site is such a target for child abuse fetishism. it's so gross to know people who physically attack children exist, and get off talking about and trying to justify it.

Pfuzylogic · M

@pentacorn
Exactly! They don’t even appreciate those that are members here but just barge in here like it is a game/personal mental challenge while other triggered members suffer and they bring out the most perverted profiles. You would think they could respect SimilarWorlds as a place for discussion with those of Similar Minds even the most vulnerable.

pentacorn · F

@Pfuzylogic that's why i just can't buy his story of how he ended up here talking about beating kids. classic pedo troll, and probably a re-offender as well.

Pfuzylogic · M

@pentacorn
We are in the same wavelength here.
I see this as a personal chuckle for him/her while many others are affected in a very negative way. That would explain all of the downvotes.

pentacorn · F

@Pfuzylogic exactly. and bingo!

patioratio · 70-79, M

@pentacorn I'm not a troll, nor am I a 'pedo'. Why do some people feel it so necessary to hurl foul imprecations at those they disagree with.

I can live with 'child abuser' because while I absolutely disagree I can understand why somebody could sincerely believe that any form of corporal punishment is abuse.

But thousands, if not millions of teachers, used corporal punishment until quite recently. In quite a few places they still do. Maybe there were some who did it for sexual gratification. Almost certainly. But most did not. They did it - as I did - because it was part of our job. Some of them may have even disagreed with it and still done it because it was expected - you don't always get to choose what your job requires you to do. Others - like myself at the time, even if I'm not sure now - actually believed we were doing good.

I'm not into 'child abuse fetishism' but it's hardly surprising if that's what this site is full of, when others are attacked in an obvious attempt to drive them away.

pentacorn · F

@patioratio because you're a child abuser.

of course you can live with it, because what's the alternative?

we're not talking about anyone but you.

so go away already. we don't want your kind here.