A prick indeed. A teacher being abusive but competent and hardworking is one thing, but abusive and an incompetent lazy dog is another proposition entirely. Similar with parenting. Though the world has definitely changed and isn't going back. Passive aggressiveness is the new violence.
Currently work as a Teaching Assistant looking to start Teacher Training in September. Sometimes it seems incredibly tempting to give one or two of the kids a good whack (obviously I would never do such a thing). And sometimes those kids would deserve it. However, the scope for mistreatment of the system and the possibility of actively encouraging child abuse from those who are not morally capable enough to handle such responsibility means that corporal punishment should never return. Better one dickhead kid gets away with being a dickhead kid rather than ten children leaving school emotionally scarred.
There is a big difference, well spotted However, the punishment for youngster barely touches on anything remotely near justice. They get put in special classes outside of school and get to do pretty much what they like including playing on game consoless! I'm all for the return pf civil service too. Youngsters (& people in general nowadays) lack respect. Only one way of making it happen; discipline! Send with murderers and *****s, they've done the crime so should do time. The punishment needs to be harsh so that it works as a deterrence as it should!
When I was in junior school as the top year we were the prefects/monitors. 4 of us were made milk monitors. We had to deliver hexagonal orange plastic crates containing triangular cartons of milk to each class. The advantage of the job was twofold. Firstly we did it whilst the rest of the school was at assembly, secondly if any kids were of ill then when we collected the crates at morning break we could have the extra cartons, after a few went into the staff room. One day during a particularly bad winter flu outbreak there were loads left over.We decided to throw them at a bus stop full of people waiting for a bus outside the school.As at this time all the other kids had gone back into class it did not take to much for us to be identified. The following day at assembly we were marched onto the stage and the headmaster stripped us of our orange milk monitor badges, and actually threw them onto the floor and trod on them to emphasis his point ( I suspect he was a fan of the then western series Branded). We then had to line up and he caned us on our hands in front of the entire school. We deserved it and the four of us went on to have good careers, two having lots of letters after their name and being members of Chartered bodies, one a very senior fire brigade officer and one an anti terrorist officer with special branch. What would have become of us if we had got away with it, would we have gone on to greater crimes...who knows?
Great story indeed gb, The question should be if you weren't given that sort of heavy punishment rather. Lighter measures like reprimands, warnings and restrictions don't have the same correctional effect as heavier measures like corporal punishment, public humiliation and confinement. The effect of these is immediate and goes much deeper. Maybe too deep, to the extent of correcting too much as in scarring or even effacing a personality. But as crumpet said, chances are that such methods will be abused by pricks, which should make them obsolete. As with say, capital punishment, better that a murderer goes free than an innocent executed. Now, parents is another matter. Parents can't easily become pricks as there is love and care in there besides responsibility towards their children. It is pathetic that some social advocacy groups have succeeded in stripping parents of rights of corporal punishment.
I can only remember being smacked by my parents once. I was arguing with my sister in the kitchen, I was about 11 she would have been 14. I called her a t**t and my Mum slapped me across the back of the head, and then started crying and apologised as she had never hit any of us before or since. I said I was sorry and did not know what the word meant as I had heard it at school. My Mum said I was never to use it again as it was so bad. Later that night I told my sister I still thought she was a t**t, but made sure my Mum was not around.
