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Originally Posted by Gary L
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I'm sorry you have trouble following a thread Gary, corporal punishment is the cane in school as much as smacking a child is, maybe you'd be better off if you could expand your mind a little.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
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. |
That last paragraph sounds a far better alternative to the hour after school or the three hours on a Saturday morning detention that I remember.
Detention after school was no real hardship because you did it with others, also it was usually filled with pointless exercises like lines or an essay where every letter had to be written in a different colour, only to be ripped up in front of you at the end of detention. "Life were ard in my day Maggy"
At least with seclusion the child is doing something worthwhile, instead of some pointless task purely designed to humiliate.