No matter what that kid says, he/she will be paddled. That kid is convicted and sentenced before he/she even says a word. What rule did he or she break? Maybe the teacher had a bad night and came to work in a bad mood. Maybe he had to sleep on the coach. He didn’t get […]

My son has been instructed on how to handle bullies. He may not do it as well as I did but that doesn’t matter. See? I’ve already fallen into your trap. This thread is not about bullies. It’s about the atmosphere of oppression and intimidation at schools that use cp. Next, I know you and […]

When corporal punishment is available, it doesn’t have to be used when it’s the wrong thing for a particular child. I certainly agree that it is critical that you make sure that you have procedures in place to make sure that is so – and I’ll even go so far as to say that if […]

We have students at this school – former victims of bullying – who are here specifically because this is their place of safety. Some of them do get caned during their time here. I doubt any of them would choose to go back. Here’s another ‘dirty little secret’ for people to consider. Those opposed to […]

This actually makes our students feel safe. Consider – simply put – would you rather be in a school where (even if you are badly behaved) every day, there’s a less than 1% chance a teacher might hurt you in a controlled way if you deserve it (and there are processes in place to try […]

Boys don’t fear expulsion, suspension, or the cane because they know we work very hard to make sure those punishments are never unfair – we’re not perfect, I admit that, I know of a few cases where innocent boys have been caned despite our best efforts – but we’re as close as is practical to […]

Our boys don’t walk around living in fear – that’s not just my opinion, one of the Universities here does routinely assess student wellbeing and they find our students to be among the happiest and best adjusted around. Why? Well, while we do use corporal punishment, we also take a great deal of care to […]

Fairness is what counts. My school – where I’ve taught for decades. When I started here, there were problems at times with fairness. Problems that by today’s standards I would say were utterly unacceptable. Even so, I doubt that any boy experienced unfair punishment more than a few time in their years here and most […]

I spent years of my own schooling in a school where quite severe – at times, I would say, brutal – corporal punishment was available. Did I live in constant fear of it? No, I didn’t. The only times I was afraid of getting caned were times when I’d done something to deserve it. 99% […]

Unfortunately, it’s true, that there have been schools in the past which were not fair. There are probably schools around today that are not fair. And, yes, children in schools like those might well live in fear of corporal punishment all the time if it was available to them. But the problem isn’t the corporal […]