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Originally Posted by frogstamper
Maybe if you did you'd be a little less eager to beat them, where else in the world does a democratic country still beat their kids with lengths of bamboo cane?
I had the cane whilst at school in the 70's, being caught with cigarettes was deemed to warrant six strokes on the backside, and it did absolutely nothing to deter bad behavior so much so that boys would opt for four of the cane instead of a Saturday morning detention, which was far worse in our eyes.
All corporal punishment does is desensitize a child to violence, if a teacher has to resort to beating a child nobody wins, corporal punishment belongs well in the past.
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Detentions don't work either.They maybe disliked but eventually they just don't have the punch and they fail to work as a DETERRENT to the rest of the school population.This is what people forget.Punishment is supposed to work on two levels and if the punishment is not a deterrent then it's not a complete success.Then you get more of the school's disaffected thinking that the punishment isn't so bad and that it's worth getting caught.
It's pretty much what many people think is wrong with the present judicial system and the penal system.
The only thing that seems to work for a short time is inclusion/seclusion where the miscreant is kept under the eye of the senior management in a seclusion room where they get the work they would have been doing that day and they get no chance to see friends around the campus because they get separate break times etc.