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# A good thrashing will teach him that violence solves nothing.
(Yog Sogoth, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 18:37, archived)
# Ha just replied to the HYS on this.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 18:52, archived)
# When the cane was a very real threat at school, I was, for the most part, a model pupil.
When the cane was banned, and I knew I could potentially sue any teacher that raised a hand to me, I became an absolute cunt.

Make of that what you will.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 18:52, archived)
# Father stopped thumping me when I nearly stabbed him.
Make of that what you will.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 18:55, archived)
# My father was an authoritarian, regularly drunk and very free with his fists.
I learnt tang soo do in my teens and he never bothered me again.
He no longer drinks as much as he did, and we now get along fine.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 18:59, archived)
# I took a train, bought a motorcycle and didn't look back.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:07, archived)
# cool story, bro
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:09, archived)
# Pfft.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:12, archived)
# t'was genuine.
wax on, wax off...
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:25, archived)
# You are an absolute cunt
This doesn't apply to all unsmacked kids thank God.
(Yog Sogoth, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 18:55, archived)
# If I knew who you were, your opinion might matter.
Thanks for your input, though - it's always nice to have a level-headed discussion with others.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:01, archived)
# Same to you
You are an absolute cunt.
(Yog Sogoth, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:13, archived)
# Third time's the charm.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:19, archived)
# I'm enjoying the use of the word absolute.
So you are up there with Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Hitler, Rob etc.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:49, archived)
# Not just your standard cunt
but an absolute cunt.
(Yog Sogoth, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:53, archived)
# Never had the threat of corporal punishment throughout my schooling.
Was well behaved barring the odd snowball thrown in the teacher's smoking lounge.
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:06, archived)
# surely those two things happened decades apart
How long did you have to go to school for?
(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:40, archived)
# The cane was in regular use when I started secondary school in 1982.
It was banned by the time I left in 1988, and one pupil in my town had successfully sued a teacher for cuffing him around the ear in 1987.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:46, archived)
# I was curious apparently it was only banned in 1987
Considering another head teacher didn't get done for actually causing harm according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning#Use_in_schools it's still a chinny reckon
(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:50, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 22:27, archived)
# I was beaten at school
life got a lot worse after the ban - we never knew what the punishment would be - a caning lasted 10 minutes (well, the sore arse did, the caning lasted seconds) but pessimi meant losing afternoons for weeks sometimes.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 13:11, archived)
# the threat of violence is remarkable when handled well, especially in schools
As a child of the 70s and early 80s we were all very much aware of the slipper, metre rule, and cane's existance but didn't know of anyone actually on the receiving end.
I can't recall a single badly behaved kid at my school either.

The trick is to keep it a threat not a reality, as soon as one kid is punished it all falls apart as it becomes either a badge of honour to the wrong'uns or simply known to be not that bad.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:31, archived)
# my few recent threats of violence and near muggings
have resulted in me (a wee little fella) shouting aggressively at our would be attackers demanding to know where my glasses are (having just been punched off my face) and asking for our wallet/bag back. on both occasions it worked. no idea what came over me, i just talked with authority, like a teacher
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:45, archived)
# A nicer school than mine, the really out of control kids got used to it.
Some people get more angry than frightened and take it out on others.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 19:46, archived)
# i had the slipper :(
then got to high school and cane was banned YaY :)
(herman:D, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 21:08, archived)
# Personally I doubt that it would currently cause much difference.
Surely there was still truancy and bad behaviour during times when corporal punishment was commonplace. This argument all seems to be predicated on the understanding that since there's well behaved kids somewhere then the cane is doing it's job merely by being said to exist and maybe used occasionally on the question that it doesn't. And not that there's some bad kids with justification for being bad and some other kids who are inexplicably so and moreover that there are kids that are naturally or inexplicably well behaved alongside them.

Isn't the question not whether kids are behaving but whether the adults they become are behaving and further whether they've had the chance to learn anything during their time at school?
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 21:19, archived)
# A deterrent that is used has failed.
I'm certain there was one teacher at school who got his jollies from beating kids. A real throbbing man likes it when they can't fight back apparently.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 11:46, archived)
# I started primary school in 1980 (Ireland) and from the teachers, I got . . .
. . . punched, slapped, the strap (leather baton across the hand '6 of the best' as the head called them), meter ruler's broke over my ass, hair pulled and mouth washed out with a soap bar . . . but it was worth every second!
(I helped save b3ta! Q4nobody, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 12:35, archived)