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?
(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?
Christian's Bolt and Ski,
Sun 3 Feb 2013, 21:19,
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