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If anyone lays so much as a finger on my daughter, I don't care if they're a teacher, Police Officer or whatever, they'll end up in a GREAT deal of trouble.

Physical discipline is for the parents/guardians only.

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And how would you feel if you did accidently cause some lasting damage, either physically or emotionally to one of your children?

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If my child hurt another child or set fire to someting - or did anything that risked other childrens life (or there own) then yes I would smack them..

There are many other methods of dicipline and I would only smack as a last resort.

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*LOL* That's very specific, are they the only two reasons? And who's to say that an arsonist child is going to give a stuff about getting a smack?

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You mean the pyhsical and emotional pain that a child that is bullied goes through... To the extent that they and there own life ?????

When they tell the teacher and there parents. The bullies parents say " he's only playing or its part of growing up "

Were you ever picked on at school ?

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Well - Was smacked by my parents when I was a child..... I am not mentaly or physicaly scared.....

I am a very happy adult with a full time job who loves his parents very much. I respect them for bringing me up in the best way they could !

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Irrelevant, I'm talking about a parent accidently harming their child through the use of corporal punishment, please try to keep my posts in context.

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Perhaps if they'd brought you up without corporal punishment and used other effective methods then who knows, you might have gone on to even greater things, bit late now .. you'll never know.

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We will have to agree to disagree then m8 :)

Edit : You did not answer my question - Were you bullied at school ?

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The day the cane was banned in school was the day discipline went out of the window.The amount of times the cane was actually used in the schools I attended was minute but discipline was good.

Now you can't even push a disruptive student out of a classroom without them threatening to get their particular adult up the school.The brightest and best student's education is being held hostage by these lazy and uncooperative louts.

If corporal punishment is not to be used then I think it is the parents who must face discipline if their children WON'T behave in class.A fine or two might work.Just like the ones when a parent doesn't stop their child truanting and are taken to court.

Incog.

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Agreed .. or is that 'dis'agreed? :D

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LOL - Just out of interest - What would you do if your children were found to be bullying other children. How would you handle it ?

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The cane/slipper and various other methods of corporal punishment were used in my school (around 18+ years ago), one particular student laughed at the headmaster after receiving a good caning, he went on to commit armed robbery 5 years after leaving school and did a good stretch inside. Another student decided it was better to kick the games teacher half to death just in case, the teachers used to go around in pairs for fear of getting knifed ... all this (and worse) in a school that used corporal punishment.

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Didn't post there. I think thats wrong.

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Difficult to say, there's an unlimited amount of other non-violent punishments you can inflict. Bullies cower when their victims stand up to them, not when their parents join in on the act.