Did you get the cane at school?

Of all places, school is a place where you should feel safe and secure.

So, how sad that so many of us have memories of violence and intimidation

Its bad parenting from an early age, i dont nessecarily think teachers need the right to strike a child if it is disciplined at home properly and close contact is kept with the school staff. there are always exceptions to any rule.

If you tell your child they wont get 'this and that' if they mis behave then please stick to it, and not let them have things 10 minutes later. They need to learn there are consequences. I see parents doing this all the time.

[timwilky]

When my lad seriously P'eed me off, I cut the plugs off everything in his bedroom.

No Telly, play station etc for a month was my order.

After about 3 months the wife asked when I was going to put them back on for him. (He being about 16 at the time)

I was even more disappointed in him as I had left the plugs on the floor by the socket. I had expected he would have refitted them within the hour. Seems he didn't know how.

Schools don't even tell kids the basics such as how to wire a plug these days. I thought technology was compulsory for all.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Ed

Of all places, school is a place where you should feel safe and secure.

So, how sad that so many of us have memories of violence and intimidation

My teachers were fine, and most of my school mates were fine. But going from a nice primary school, I learned rather quickly who to fear and stay well clear off.

Lets just say my school was a rather mixed soup of social and ethernic backgrounds.

Luckily I knew what was right from wrong and was lucky in life

Originally Posted by Ed

Of all places, school is a place where you should feel safe and secure.

So, how sad that so many of us have memories of violence and intimidation

FFS! I deserved it! I was being a P***K! I got what I deserved!

I have THOUSANDS of other memories that were fantastic at school!

I was PUNISHED for being bad.

Get a grip!

C

Originally Posted by Berlin

FFS! I deserved it! I was being a P***K! I got what I deserved!

I have THOUSANDS of other memories that were fantastic at school!

I was PUNISHED for being bad.

Get a grip!

C

[Wideboy]

bring back the cane!! will sort these little feckers out nowerdays....... i wasnt in the cane era at school but my parents used to hit me and my brother when we stepped out of line and im glad of it, stopped me growing up into a complete **** head (well not 100% at least)... dad still does whack me if i get gobby

But this is circular, you are saying you got the cane or whatever because you deserved it, for being 'bad'. How do you know that you were 'bad', who told you? Whose norm is 'bad'? The real issue is whether being 'bad' justifies a caning. I say it doesn't. You say that you deserved it, so you assume the point. It's a self serving argument.

When I was 6, those vicious Catholic nuns tied me to the chair because I wouldn't sit still. Bad?

No, not bad. I can tell from your posts that there are underlying issues.

Taken to extremes its not good (as you have clearly experienced).

But then Catholicism seems to be very good at that.

I was bad, I know the difference between right and wrong and I was in the wrong. I crossed the line. I got punished. I didn't do it again.

Job Jobbed.

When I was good I got praise and house points.

Life goes on, ... and then you die (and there is no heaven so don't worry about it )

C

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by Berlin

FFS! I deserved it! I was being a P***K! I got what I deserved!

I have THOUSANDS of other memories that were fantastic at school!

I was PUNISHED for being bad.

Get a grip!

C

+1

I think a lack of discipline both in schools and at home has greatly contributed to many of the problems we have in todays society.