Did you get the cane at school?

Originally Posted by Bibio

what would you suggest then. psychology? treating them to days out?

I don't think there is a 'right' answer. Many things have been tried over the centuries from deportation through capital punishment but nothing seems to stop people committing crime.

I do think that the answer lies in providing a way out of crime, but nothing in this is straightforward. The 'bad lads army' was mentioned in the other thread and it worked (for most of that group) because it gave them something to strive for.

Greater minds than mine have been put to this but we are not getting any closer to a decent result. I would actually suggest that society is becoming more polarised down the punish/rehabilitate divide.

[dirtydog]

The cane was a thing of the past when I started school back in 1984 ish. Although I regularly had chalk/board rubbers thrown at me and later on in my schooling was constantly in trouble and had to get each teacher to sign my "report" to prove I had turned up to the lesson and then head of year to sign it everyday and the head to sign it at the end of week. Wouldve been expelled if it wasn't done

[squirrel_hunter]

Never got caned at school, but got stonned once...

Nah...no cane for me, I just got sent to a "remove room" so I couldn't distract other students!

[MisterTommyH]

Yup.

Primary school teacher got a bit carried away during 'Victorian Week'.

Probably was a propper thrashing like you lot, but it still left a mark for a few days.

No, because i went to school in these modern times where you cant so much as frown at a child without getting sacked

[Bri w]

Caned two or three times. Yes I was in the wrong. Yes it was the accepted punishment for what I did. No it didn't do me any harm.

However, the Physics teacher used the rubber hose off a Bunsen Burner. It was extrememly painful, and only succeeded in generating resentment towards that teacher. Respect he didn't get, either in class, in the playground or out of school.

The best teachers controlled a class without the need for corporal punishment. Their lessons were interesting, fun and I have huge respect for them and their ability as teachers. And those that couldn't achieve that without recourse to the cane were cr@p at their job.

[Bibio]

i'm of the age where violence, drink, dope, acid and solvents were prolific in school. it was half way threw my education they decided to ban the belt. within a couple of months there were about 5 people left in my class. everyone just went completly mental as the only punishment was to get suspended or better still expelled. so i wonder if the 'belt' was a deterrent.

Originally Posted by TazDaz

Nah...no cane for me, I just got sent to a "remove room" so I couldn't distract other students!

Likewise. Too many times to mention in high school. But if they'd caned (in our school it was a 1 meter wooden ruler) me it wouldn't have happened again! It stopped when I was in Middle school.

Hell, I used to go an put myself in the "Remove room" if it was raining. what kind of punishment is not as bad as going out in the rain, for gods sake?

I got dragged across the room by my hair and thrown out of the window by Mr White When I was 12. I never worked my ticket in his class again! I got hit by a text book across the knuckes by Mr Penter when I was 14. Didn't **** around in his class any more.

The cane (or similar) was the ultimate line in the sand. Cross it if you dare. I don't know of anyone who crossed the line more than twice.

C

[maviczap]

Had to stand outside the headmasters office at lunchtime, for a month in primary school, after the boys who played footie in the playground got caught once to often retrieving the ball from the coalyard next door. We'd been warned, but boys will be boys

No one got the cane there, but in Secondary school I remember a sadistic RE teacher who caned two lads in front of the class, and he didn't hold back with his swing.

I'm afraid I was too much of a goody two shoes to ever get threatend with the cane, there were a lot of badasses in my school.

I was more scared of what my Dad might do if I ever got into trouble