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When I was in school, caning was a common form of punishment. This was up to the age of 18; granted - for kids in high school, caning was reserved for major offences only.
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Atleast you guys have
rules. Here, they cane us even if it's against the law.
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Fair enough, it could be said that discipline bred from fear isn't the best of ideas, but hey - in a class of 30-odd kids, it got the job done. And those kids who didn't cause any problems, kids who were there to learn and not cause a ruckus, ultimately benefitted from it.
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Well... that's fine till an extent. Last year, our chem teacher suddenly decided that the boys needed some moral re-wiring (he'd caught some of my mates doing immoral acts) and began to use his enormous hands on us. Gosh, he was scaring me shitless. And hell, I was probably the (second) nicest guy in the whole school.
It's fine if it's not used as an apparatus for in-school terror(ism). I hated the murderous procedures he did on the boys. Can you imagine throwing NaOH on a guy's feet after catching his barefoot on the football feild?
We were not brave enough to complain, (our principal was a old cowardly dweeb and we feared for his life as well) and had to resort to the '
Oh please! Oh please!' kind of thing.
In the end, he achieved
nothing. The dudes still had BPs in their mobiles, they still saw BFs.
Ahem... I seem to have gone too far with my sob stories.
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I think saying that a slap on the bum will necessarily lead to the cappin' of some homie's ass is a bit of an oversimplification. A slap on the bum will define the authority your dad/mom has over you when you're at the age where they can't really explain it to you otherwise - your mind hasn't developed to the point yet where you can follow a big argument or explanation.
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That... is a perfect justification of the use in my opinion. But as I said earlier, it must not,
not, and
not be overdone.
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Our schools are now falling apart because they have banned corporal punishment without providing a suitable alternative.
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Actually, not
all schools are falling apart.
I had been to a school (twelve in all, BTW) where they focussed on good treatment of the students, 'catching them young', givingthem good habits, good conduct mindsets since the KG level and the separation of bad apples.
That was a good school, it's a pity I don't remember much.
