Loose Women│Should We Bring Smacking Back Into Schools?│5th January 2010

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[@emmatamburello1117]

to me humiliation IS worse than smacking

[@alexcox15]

im at secondary school at the moment and the kids that do misbehave do it for attention and repect from their peers sending them outside is probably the best idea because then the distruption is gone.They can then be dealt with later this doesnt happen in my school most teachers just let it carrry on. However i dont think that any form of phisical punishment should be brought back because it could very easily be misused.There should be a change in the system because the current one isnt working

[@lisamorris7491]

After watching educating Manchester I definitely think some sort of disapline should be in schools ,kids today are shocking there rude ,ignorant don't even care about their education !!And how they speak to the teachers well I wouldn't speak to my cat like it 😡it's not fair on the teachers they can't even shout at them no wonder they need so many holidays . BRING BACK PUNISHMENT

[@thecreativemillenial]

the amount of stuff kids get away with now that discipline has been waterred down is ridiculous

[@peterbanko2408]

Putting children in the corner is humiliating? Of course it is, that's the point.

[@aprildannette9820]

Exactly Peter Banko I know kids who choose to be paddled hw is that punishing a kid when they choose the method

[@popolvue]

kate talks about disciplining her 18 month old,lynda say's hairbrush and its hilariously funny..really.

[@behindmyblueeyes99]

Why?

[@FreckleFaceBec]

I'm 15 and my parents used to 'smack' us when we were little- and they probably still would now if we did anything to deserve it. Of course I hated it then, but i'm alot happier now and compared to others my age I think I definatley know the bounderies.

[@ciaracustard]

I agree, I think that's probably a factor. Especially when people argue that they didn't like it at the time but now they're "better for it" - they don't have another life where they weren't hit to compare it to.

[@jamesmacgregor3911]

Personally, I think it's the parents responsibility. I just think teachers don't and shouldn't have that amount of power over a child they teach. Teachers have boundaries, if the child in question is being unruly - they should be put out of the class, their parents should be spoken to and it's up to the parents to deal with it and if they don't then that's the parents fault and the children will have to deal with it.

[@HackHunters]

when you smack a child you're telling the child that they're so dumb that you, as the adult, aren't going to waste their time to explain what's right and wrong, after all the child is 'stupid'. Wake up, the chaos the adults create translates into the children's perception of how they think the world works. They're kids with very little experience and as 'teachers' go ahead and teach them what's right and wrong, thus enabling them to make the right choices. Or is that to complex for you?

[@aprildannette9820]

HackHunters thats bull crap smacking is not abuse beating is

[@niamhspeirs3656]

Here’s the thing parent scan discipline their children how they see fit within reason but teachers who are prepared to cane children are folk who i don’t want being teachers - also if you hit an adult with a cane it’s assault so why would you do it to a child ?

[@ciaracustard]

I think smacking is abuse. I'm really sorry if that offends someone but it's what I think. I don't think you can teach children right and wrong by threatening them - then they'll just do bad when no one's looking. They'll get sneaky. If you think something is wrong, teach your children WHY it's wrong.

[@aprildannette9820]

AAARGH Well you are a wimp some situations you need a little smack its not the same as beating your child

[@lititiatalor2186]

I don't understand what does jane means?

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

I think that any unruly child should be rewarded and given some kind of certificate. Cos at the moment kids can sue their parents and as we know any undisplined kid grows up to be a pillar of the community. I know a 13 yr kid who bashes his mother and fondles his 12 yr sister but the mother does nothing because he has the law and the welfare dept behind him. (No father tho) Kids should be allowed to do whatever they like and then in time become politicians

[@alcudiababe1]

i disagree that you should put kids in a corner. Yes it is humiliating, i remember years back at a nursery the nursery teachers forcing me to stand in a wall. (I have a very long memory) so I passionatly disagree to tbis because to my knoweldge i did nothing wrong. Yes i must admit teachers back in my day around the 1900's were better equipped to deal with kids without smacking or hitting them because there was a time when teachers never had to hit them and were very good at their jobs. It wasn't good at teaching Maths or English it was being a disiplinarian, - and i never saw myself as a disruptive kid. I always behaved, and followed the rules and when things happened I was unfairly disaplined. One time at Nursary, for disapline... now, of cause all kids are at the age of potentially wetting themselves but another "Nursary punnishment" was... all of us girls were made to lift up our skirts to see who had wet ourselves and the teacher would come around inspecting us all, and if that was you who had, had an accident you'd be in for it!! That was humiliation at its worse! With teachers, even though i had a better relationship with them once i spoke out about the bullying that had been going on... but i found teachers were very black and white mind setted, which really bugs me, something was either wrong or right and not many found the hidden greys in the middle. Willing to ask me what was wrong or talk to me about what was going on, they just saw an action being made and it got punished. I'm not one to say look at me, poor me anymore but if anyone watches the start of Perfect from Pink and you see the little girl happily playing with her teddy bear and then the big mean boy takes it away from her and when she acts out - she is therefore punnished and that was me!!!. She had to watch the kids jumping on a bouncy castle outside, whilst suffering a mistreated punnishment by staying inside. And I'm that girl! I"m sorry but until i spoke out I found teachers unhelpfully mean. Fair enough if i had done something wrong but I dont think teachers are always good judge of character and they make mistakes and I'm saying that in my experience. That they would punish a good girl who respected them, than someone who was a troublemaker - the trouble makers big surprise, do lie!!! And they would blame me for crap and get me into trouble with the teachers - did not help because i developped a stammer teachers could not understand me!!! One lad said I'd purposly knocked over some pencils rather than saying it was an accident, another lied and said i'd kicked him when i hadn't therefore I was asked to take my shoes off. But everyone saw me taking a tumble as he kicked me into some tables and the tables so to speak were turned around on me. I got the blame. And if the teachers were so sure I kicked him and he kicked back surely they would have made him take his shoes off??? Nope!! I think teachers have got to know their kids on a level where they can make a good character judgment and say "knock it off - pull the other one..." when other kids are making up lies.

[@aprildannette9820]

iTS SUPPOSED TO BE A LITTLE HUMILIATING OR EMBARRASSING IS MAYBE THE BETTER WORD Smacking does not work on kids anymore hardly you have to get them where it counts and sometimes that is to embarrass them a bit

[@alcudiababe1]

April Dannette well I was saying that teachers get the wrong end of the stick, they see an act of violence and they punish it, but were they seeing how the mean boy was pulling her hair out of her bobble? They would punish someone who didn't deserve to be humiliated and that was my point. Fair enough actual trouble makers and bullies and other wrong doers but when teachers don't know what's going on and they don't bother to find out they can easily humiliate someone who DOESN'T deserve it...

[@lititiatalor2186]

I don't think that they should bring it back

[@ktthe90sgirl88]

lititia talor i think they should in a way as Jane is right they is not much discipline in schools any more. I'm glad I'm not at school any more