Yes, I brought it up as I am concerned with any push for the reintroduction of corporal punishment will most likely see an increase in sexual abuse in the catholic system or indeed any other organisation that deals with young people.
I sincerely dont think I accused anyone of advocating corporal punishment as being pro child molester etc, just pointing out the possibilites as history shows us the two in the past have been very closely linked.
You all have friends who are teachers that think it should be reintroduced, why dont they get together and make a political point about it if they are in the majority?
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.