All schools should bring back corporal punishment

I stated it worked and stand by it. If it didn't work then why would it have continued? Why is it since the bans started children have become incorrigible and school shootings, gang rapes and other things have become more and more popular. Almost weakly we read about; rapes, gang rapes, assaults and even murder. Those things did not happen back in the 60's and 70's when I went to school and bullying was very, very rare. Although I am sure things did happen in some parts of the country it was virtually unheard of. History - I just snagged this real quick from wikipedia. Corporal punishment was recorded as early as c. 10th Century BC in Book of Proverbs attributed to Solomon: He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes. Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell. It was certainly present in classical civilisations, being used in Greece, Rome, and Egypt for both judicial and educational discipline. Some states gained a reputation for using such punishments cruelly; Sparta, in particular, used them as part of a disciplinary regime designed to build willpower and physical strength. Although the Spartan example was extreme, corporal punishment was possibly the most frequent type of punishment. In the Roman Empire, the maximum penalty that a Roman citizen could receive under the law was 40 "lashes" or "strokes" with a whip applied to the back and shoulders, or with the "fasces" (similar to a birch rod, but consisting of 8"10 lengths of willow rather than birch) applied to the buttocks. Such punishments could draw blood, and were frequently inflicted in public. I don't know why you would be amused with my using a debate. It brings into play other opinions. I have no problem sharing my sources and even encourage you to use them. This topic has been debated since the days of the first real republic Greece. Like all republics, the softer they got and they more entitlements the weaker the empire and eventual collapse. I happened in Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, British and now the USA. When I mentioned the 6000 teachers I guess I was wrong in believing you would understand it. I thought it was obvious and easy to understand. England is a very liberal country. They have many entitlements and have been pushing for all types of entitlement reform since the 1750's. (Don't go getting political I am using the word entitlement because the English believe they are "entitled" certain things. Politics is another subject). For a union (liberal) organization such as teachers and living in a liberal society such as England it is AMAZING that 20% of the teachers would say they think it should be brought back. The article doesn't say how may had no opinion or had a different position. Skewing facts does not make a case. Being spanked has never been proven to cause violence when a person becomes an adult. There are a ton of psychology papers on the internet talking about this subject but they never went out, grabbed 100,000 people, sat them all down and ask who had been spanked, who has been violent and do they feel there is a connection. What they do is visit people in prison, who are always innocent and ask about their childhood and being spanked. Then they claim that spanking damaged them!!! Yelling at a child causes more mental damage than spanking. However, a parent who calmly spanks a child after explaining why the child is being spanked and does so only to create a foundation for other primary methods of discipline (such as Time Out) is never going to develop a pattern of violence in the child. Never. The American Academy of Pediatrics admits that spanking can stop a child from misbehaving in the short-term. Exactly. During that initial short-term period, parents should transition to Time Out to train their child to obey and respect others. Many children respond to self-controlled, reasonable spanking with an adjustment in their attitude toward parents. http://drpaterno.blogspot.com... Here are the states with corporal punishment still allowed, then the rank in violent crime, then the major cities in those states, and then the percentage of whites in those cities. We know violent crimes are highest in major cities, especially the inner cities. We also know that violent crimes are committed disproportionately by minorities and people who come from broken homes. The violent crime has nothing to do with spanking. States with corporal punishment Rank Major cities % white population in city Alabama 23 Birmingham,Montgomery 35.0 47.6 Arizona 16 Phoenix, Tucson 46.5, 47.2 Arkansas 11 Little Rock, N. Little Rock 49.4, 61.55 Colorado 25 Denver, Aurora 52.2, 61.1 Florida 4 Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa 55.1, 11.9, 46.3 Georgia 19 Atlanta, Augusta 50.7, 39.1 Idaho 42 Boise, Nampa 91.5, 83.45 **** Indiana 29 Indianapolis 58.0 Kansas 24 Wichita, Kansas City 64.5, 40.2 Kentucky 40 Louisville, Lexington 71.7, 81.04 Louisiana 5 New Orleans, Baton Rouge 33.0, 37.8 Mississippi 31 Jackson, Gulfport 18.0, 56.86 Missouri 12 St. Louis, Kansas City 42.2, 54.9 New Mexico 9 Albuquerque, Las Cruces 42.1, 37.5 * North Carolina 18 Charlotte, Raleigh 45.1, 53.3 Ohio 27 Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati 59.3, 33.4, 48.1 Oklahoma 17 Tulsa, Oklahoma City 57.9, 68.7 South Carolina 1 Columbia, Charleston, N. Charleston 49.6, 52.2, 40.6 ** Tennessee 2 Memphis, Nashville 29.5, 56.3, Texas 15 Houston, San Antonio, Dallas 26.0, 26.6, 28.8 *** Wyoming 43 Cheyenne, Casper 87.4, 92.3 **** * http://www.newmexico-demographics.com... ** http://www.southcarolina-demographics.com... *** Houston, San Antonio and Dallas are around 50% until the white hispanics are removed from the non hispanic. **** These were not listed with white hispanics removed. I see 5 in the top 10 and 3 in the bottom 10. Maine #50 is 94.4% non hispanic white. New Hampshire #48 is 92.3% and Vermont #47 is 94.3. I realize that spanking is not allowed in schools in these states but home spanking is. A liberal made a motion to ban home spanking and it was heavily defeated!!! http://en.wikipedia.org...