All schools should bring back corporal punishment

I didn't expect to be criticized so quickly. I merely made a simple statement to get the ball rolling, not to present evidence. I wanted someone to accept the argument first. I did have a fact in the statement, I wrote, "No whiny little brats want to shoot someone when there poor little feelings get hurt because they have had no structure in school or at home." That is a pure and simple fact. Before the "hippie generation" there were only 3 school shootings, before 1970. "Enoch Brown school massacre " July 26, 1764 "Poe Elementary School Attack " September 15, 1959 "University of Texas at Austin massacre " August 1, 1966 "Kent State shootings " May 4, 1970 "Avivim school bus massacre " May 8, 1970 "Jackson State killings " May 14-15, 1970 "Ma"alot massacre " May 15, 1974 "California State University " July 12, 1976 "Parkway South Junior High School shooting " January 20, 1983 "Laurie Dann " May 20, 1988 "Stockton massacre " January 17, 1989 ""cole Poly technique Massacre " December 6, 1989 "University of Iowa shooting " November 1, 1991 "Concordia University massacre " August 24, 1992 "Simon"s Rock College of Bard shooting " December 14, 1992 "Richland High School shooting " 1995. "Frontier Junior High shooting " February 2, 1996 "Dunblane massacre " Scotland, March 13, 1996 "Sanaa massacre " Yemen, March 30, 1997 "Pearl High School shooting, October 1, 1997 "Heath High School shooting, December 1, 1997 "Jonesboro massacre " March 24, 1998 "Thurston High School shooting " May 21, 1998 "Columbine High School massacre " 1999 "W. R. Myers High School shooting " April 28, 1999 "Heritage High School shooting " May 20, 1999 "Santana High School " March 5, 2001 "Appalachian School of Law shooting " 2002 "Erfurt massacre " Germany, 2002 "Monash University shooting " Australia, October 21, 2002 "Rocori High School shootings " September 24, 2003 "Southwood Middle School tragedy, 2004 "Red Lake High School massacre " March 21, 2005 "Campbell County High School " November 8, 2005 "Dawson College shooting " Canada, September 13, 2006 "Platte Canyon High School shooting " September 27, 2006 "Amish school shooting " October 2, 2006 "Weston High School shooting, September 29, 2006 "Henry Foss High School " 2007 "Beirut Arab University shooting " Lebanon, January 25, 2007 "Virginia Tech massacre " April 16, 2007 It is part of the mentality of today's youth that they are entitled things, one of those being respect. When I was a child we respected ALL adults, even the ones we didn't like. Repect was earned NOT handed out freely. Websites will follow at the end. Corporal Punishment as described by the Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus (in one volume - 1990) is "punishment of a physical nature such as caning". The term mainly relates to children being punished at school but can also refer to children being punished at home. As of 2008 corporal punishment has been banned in 24 countries, including Germany, Greece and the Netherlands. Nevertheless, it is still widely used by parents in their homes. In the UK, corporal punishment has been banned in schools for numerous years. However a debate is now arising as to whether the decision to ban corporal punishment in schools was the right decision and hence, whether corporal punishment should be reintroduced? If you ask the teachers, those on the front line of disruptive students, a recurring comment is that with corporal punishment off the agenda, there are no sanctions available to teachers for the most stubborn of terrors! 1 In a survey completed by the Times Educational supplement, 6000 teachers were questioned. One in five believed that class room behaviour had deteriorated since the abolition of corporal punishment and they believed the education system would improve with the re-introduction of corporal punishment. We should adhere to the teachers requests. Coming from one of the most liberal professions, I would say 1200 teachers is a lot!!!!!!!!!! 2 It is inevitable that bad classroom behaviour will filter into life outside school. You only have to look at the crime statistics to see that crime has increased dramatically since the abolition of corporal punishment. Between 1981, when corporal punishment was legal and in 1997, after the abolition of corporal punishment, there was a 67% increase in crime. 3 Children"s behaviour has been adversely affected by the rights culture we have in Britain. A teacher cannot threaten a detention, something they are allowed to do, without the retort of "but you can't take away my freedom", "you have no right" or "I have rights". In fact children are acutely aware of how much power they have over the teachers by way of laws and rights, and they use every opportunity to remind the teachers of that fact. If we re-introduced corporal punishment this back chat would cease and the power would be retained by the teachers. And detention is not going to be taken seriously by anyone. What does detention do other than waste your time? If you have ADHD or a creative mind you'll have a blast, effectively learning nothing to *correct* your behavior. If this is the only effective authority a teacher has for an out of control student then that teacher is and probably knows his/her authority is rather pitiful. 4 There is a real feeling amongst those who are bullied that telling the teacher will worsen the problem, not make it better. Victims of bullying fear repercussions. However, if there was a system of corporal punishment behind the teachers, then something could be done which would scare the bullies out of their bullying ways. This would open bully victims up as they would discuss bullying issues with teachers knowing that something definitive could be done. If a child thinks it's okay to hit because a teacher or adult uses corporal punishment then that child is slow and fails to realize the purpose and meaning behind such an action. Besides a good and effective teacher is not going to use corporal punishment all the time, but as a last resort when all else fails. A threat is no good unless there is some fearful truth behind it. Also, teachers are only ignorant to bullying matters because they know they cannot realistically do much to stop it. So in effect, bullying has gotten a lot meaner. 5 http://debatewise.org... 1-5 You can read the opinion of real moms on the following website. http://www.circleofmoms.com... I will leave you with this thought. It worked for over 7000 years. The problem is not in the spanking it is in the weak minds of our youth. Men used to go to war, come home and lead a normal life. Since the "hippie generation" they started coming back with problems. The men coming back from Afghanistan, GOD bless them, are having a real hard time mentally. I was in Rhodesia in 1981 and saw some real horrible things but my upbringing helped me to cope with the horrors I witnessed. I was paddled at least once a month from 2nd grade to 6th. That is the way they dealt with ADHD back them. I eventually got tired of being paddled and learned to calm down and do my work. I grew up fine. I raised 4 daughters and used room confinement, standing in the corner and paddling and they all turned out perfect.