There has been a lot of coverage in the UK press about a teacher who finally snapped with a class of kids who were taunting and provoking and swearing at him while filming his reaction on mobile phones and camcorders - he picked on one lad dragged him out of the room and attacked him leading to a fractured skull and a charge of attempted murder. Commonsense has prevailed and he was acquitted although he's been in custody for some time and has pleaded guilty to assault causing grievous bodily harm.
I remember when I was at school (pre-camcorders and mobile phones) at about the age of 11-12, we had one teacher we used to treat abysmally. One day we were waiting for him to take the class and instead the deputy head walked in and lectured us on what we were doing to this guy and then said for us to sit in silence while he popped back to his office as he needed to make clear what would happen if we kept it up. His office was nearby and within a couple of minutes he returned carrying the official school cane. He told us very calmly that if the teacher reported anyone to him for bad behaviour in class they would be straight to his office to be caned, and if general bad behaviour persisted and he felt the need to come back and address the whole class again, he would cane every one of us. As you might imagine, things did improve quite a lot and the threat never needed to be carried out.
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I was a head of Dept in a large secondary school and yes in the old days what has been described here would certainly have happened, difference only being in the tools used, we used the strap. School pupils have changed over the years and doubtless because of strict control of their parents in years gone by, some now are in open rebellion with the system, parents that is. Society must come to a decision about this sooner or later. The minority who are the ring leaders of the behaviour this poor man had to face are worryingly growing. This week in the European human rights group there was an open discussion on Britains reluctance to outlaw smacking. Well it would be the final nail in the coffin and a coffin that would haunt us for decades to come.
I can lean both ways. Yes, many a naughty school-girl deserves a good caning on her bare bottom. But I've known a few female teachers, that should have been caned too. Yes, there have been some headmistresses's that needed to have theire bare bottoms warmed also. All women at times can be very naughty, and deserve good thrashings on their naked behinds.
It is high time we told the EU that we run our Country! Unless the school discipline issue is tackled soon ,no children will be getting a worth while education at all!
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