DAKSTER
Beam me up Scotty!
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If this problem is as prevalent and results from the abuse of corporal punishment as you suggest, then strange, is it not, that I, and many others, successfully negotiated many years (in my case, thirteen) of schooling in the public system during the 50's and 60's, during which corporal punishment was in vogue, without ever once being molested/abused/assaulted by anybody in authority? So I won't agree that one necessarily leads to the other.
Like many of my ilk, I copped a caning for transgressions, only in my final year managing to avoid such foolishness. Didn't turn me into an abuser/basher/kiddy-fiddler. Didn't affect any friends who went through school with me either. Nor did any of us suffer any adverse affects that resulted in antisocial or criminal behaviour as adults, either.
Those of you who perpetrate the theories that corporal punishment is archaic and cruel have failed utterly to arrive at appropriate and effective alternatives. Juvenile crime, including levels of violence within school grounds during school hours, are at levels we never could have dreamt of in our youth. The severity of some crimes, such as shooting another student with a crossbow, knifing another student to death, gang bashings, igniting the hair of a mentally disadvantaged girl while others filmed the event with their phone cameras.....need I continue? What effective deterrents have your theorists and practitians arrived at to prevent or reduce the incidence of such aggression? Suspension? Transfer to another school? Expulsion? Tsk tsk....so great a threat to the miscreant.
To prove that it IS possible for the govt and opposition to agree on stuff if they only stopped squabbling.. I am as far removed from Calaber as they come politically, but I agree with every word of this. Some things are beyond politics.
Any govt, or opposition for that matter, is supposed to work toward what the majority want. The majority of people in this discussion, and virtually any group of people you speak to, all agree that a total lack of discipline has removed any kind of respect that current teenagers may ever have had for authority or basic moral behaviour.
Spare the rod, spoil the child. Change the laws.