The student may; he or she may not. The student does learn - he or she learns that when you want something that isn't complying, beat it into submission. From my own story - I know that the few times the sadistic asshole from my elementary school whopped my ass hard enough - with a paddle with holes drilled in it, to increase the speed - to make me piss my pants, I learned something really quickly. I learned to hate for the first time in my life. Unfortunately Dr. Rogers will live with me forever, for one, as a sadist, and from that 5 or 6 year old moment, I think it was, I was confused as to how, and why, my parents could allow such a thing. I'm not sure what I did - likely, talked too much, a foible I carry still. Not doing homework, in your example, I suppose that would warrant a broken finger? I'm sorry for being flippant, Prilep, but by your logic, one would expect greater disrespect, greater violence made by students among those countries that have banned corporal punishment in their school systems. How are the school knifings by young thugs progressing in Denmark? Sweden? And on and on, countries that do not allow corporal punishment in schools - knifings, lousy school attendance, disrespect to teachers - a pandemic among these countries, is it? The U.S., by the way, remains one of the few industrialized countries left to allow corporal punishment in schools - it shares this distinction with Canada and some Australian states. (see http://www.stophitting.com/disatschool/facts.php, for one source). Another: Human Rights Watch The pat answer - "a little smack never hurts" - is just that, a pat, simplistic answer. The easy way out for parents, but one with potentially devastating consequences.
Well as i said everyone has their own opinions. Thanks for clearing some things up for me. Green rep for that. - Prilep
i think they do need it ... if u don't do it .. they are not disciplined .... you might go like u r grounded ... (ask what does grounded means) meaning that no tv, no play station.... only hw and chores thts all boohooo ... a item is worth tht much ... i think if the parents feel a need to slap .. they can do it for well ... mind ur own business
Cheers, Prilep. Thanks for the dialogue. If I've erred this side of gentlemanly, I apologize. I carry my own baggage which informs my opinions, I'm sure.
Eloquently put. It is all our business. Just as when anyone is hit - a woman walking to the train, a man blindsided by an alley, a child in the grocery line - it's all our business. The right of patria potestas died out a couple of millenia ago.
Mind your own business because children need discipline. I don’t like when parents slap kids on the face or grab them violently by one arm.