RizzyKing

I am a decent parent i think and we do administer discipline in our house and i am also painfully aware that once they are out and about with certain friends all i can do is hope they are strong enough in their own right to resist what others do. Saying that all disruptive children have bad parents is over simplyfying it a little but corporal punishment in schools where they might go a little off the rails would be better then waiting for a letter that may take a few days to arrive and punishing for something you didn't witness or know about.

If we do not trust teachers to administer corporal punishement correctly then why bother having them i mean if they are no good at discipline then whats to say they are any good at teaching full stop. This culture of "i do this and that" has to stop and we have to start trusting others in positions of authority to do the right thing at the time it is needed rather then hope it will be done by parents later on. Most kids i know that had corporal punishment in school havn't turned out that bad and despite what some think are not violent minded at all only resorting to it as a very last measure.

I have seen no evidence that violence begets violence in relation to corporal punishment because an explanation and support is given at the time it is handed out it is not mindless bullying of kids by adults.