Teen rebellion - a western export?

[mancombseepgood]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6209308.stm

 

[Tassidar]

Interesting article, thanks.
As the article suggested, teenagers do not know how to be able to behave, and need to be taught.

Personally, I am in favour of corporal punishment. Before you attack me, I am an ex-teacher, and have experience first-hand the discipline problems in our schools, and believe that no current system has offered a viable alternative. If there is a viable alternative, I will support it.

 

[mancombseepgood]

Agreed Tassidar - and even better is for parents to nurture a concience in their kids from young... man - to be a teacher today must be terrible.

 

[Nanfeishen]

Spare the rod - spoil the child , Six of the best should be re-instated.
At the risk of sounding old, i remember that children caught for serious misdemeanours were caned by the police not locked up, and it did prevent them from repeaing said misdemeanour.
It was a sad day when corporal punishment was abolished.

 

[Syndyre]

Well I seem to be in the minority but if you ask me corporal punishment is barbaric and should be outlawed in any civilised society. Parents need to actually start doing their job though.

 

[vespax]

Agree with Syndyre here. Parents need to teach there kids, not TV, Movies, Video games. Stop passing the buck off to Nintendo for your parenting duties!

 

[mancombseepgood]

Lol

Agree with Syndyre here. Parents need to teach there kids, not TV, Movies, Video games. Stop passing the buck off to Nintendo for your parenting duties!

you brought up Nintendo, not us - and who is the "your" that you are referring to? Yourself?

 

[chiskop]

Agreed with Syndyre.

Anyway, kids will always push the limits of whats allowed, and parents will always blame it on some new influence they don't understand - nintendo, television, rock 'n roll, the wireless and so on backwards forever.

 

[noxibox]

Personally, I am in favour of corporal punishment. Before you attack me, I am an ex-teacher, and have experience first-hand the discipline problems in our schools, and believe that no current system has offered a viable alternative. If there is a viable alternative, I will support it.

You're delusional if you think that regulated beatings are at all effective. The only teachers that made us nervous were the violent ones that ignored the regulations. And even those could go only so far without risking facing criminal charges. Those that stuck within the legal requirements were a joke to us. They could only hit us 6 times and there was a maximum thickness for the cane. Everyone always chose caning over detention. Once you've been caned you know it is no big deal so the teachers either have to escalate the beatings, which is the way it once was and this sort of abuse is still practiced by many religious hardliners, or keep using the same ineffective level of beating.

The strange thing is that the teachers that regularly sent pupils for canings were always the teachers with the most disrupted classes, while the competent teachers had no trouble keeping order without hitting or threatening to hit anyone. Might have something to do with us having no respect for the ones that could think of nothing better than hitting their pupils. And I still think those teachers were pathetic. But I still think highly of the good, competent teachers.

 

[nthdimension]

No teacher would ever be allowed to hit a child of mine. Any teacher that did would find themselves on the receiving end of a good beating themselves.

Corporal punishment is the first resort of the lazy.