Serving licks or more technically speaking; Corporal punishment, restraint, seclusion and other forms of discipline inflicted by teachers and administrators have the same effects that bullying and harassment by a students peers do. It doesn’t matter whether it is kids or teachers doing the hitting or intimidating, they all create an environment of fear and hostility that results in damage to our kids and lower academic performance. Reports conservatively say that school officials hit over 200,000 kids each year, chalked up as justifiable punishment for acting out. The truth is that these beatings are not only wrong, but theyre ineffective. And that is the rub or the KA-POW!, because here too, research studies show that corporal punishment leads to higher rates of absenteeism and lower academic achievement talk about counter productive?!?! And, like bullying and harassment, those who are corporally punished are disproportionately minorities or children who have disabilities. ved as fair and it must be cathartic / provide atonement.
Bullying & Corporal Punishment4
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Female Pupils Slippered12
1977 – Mr Bruce Added by David Ross I vividly remember Mr Bruce interrupting Mr Hart’s class(11) to call...
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Corporal Punishment Public or Private2
I can also see that if all punishments were delivered in public there would be less opportunity for abuse,...
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Sent for the Cane25
Knowing her ‘Americanisms’, I could have offered a translation service…….but it didn’t seem a wise option. Everybody went silent..she...
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Corporal Punisment Memories School17
I remember the cherry brandy incident. Unfortunately, the Sunday paper in those days was the Sunday Depressing(Express in real...
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The Slipper in UK Schools28
The Slipper was the main form of Corporal Punishment used at my Boys Catholic Secondary school. If you misbehaved...
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My First School Strapping10
It didn’t *have* to be something bad – it was not unknown for the Headmaster to summon someone to...
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Pupils in a Class of their Own for Bad Behaviour53
Jackie , as Ive mentioned many times before when arguing over my first caning with other staff , said...
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This going to hurt you six times more 28
One of my school masters was a keen civil war re enactment guy, so we all went to watch...