lionheart

Exactly right. Shadya or her teacher can smack Jasmine but I never would. Simple fact. I have never raised my hand to a woman either. Its just the way I was brought up I guess.

Blue Cat

there is nothing wrong with that, but sometimes Dad's have to dish out discipline as well

Spugsy

This actually explains quite a lot.

Norm_uk

I raise my hand to women a lot. The other day I had to give the ex a Nazi salute to keep her happy...

N.

lionheart

My form of discipline is probably more painful as it usually involves withholding spending money.

commander

Aye, she will sure miss that weekly 10AED handout from Daddy LH.

Millhouse

you think it's that high?

Dilmun

Any corporal punishment is a confession of failure from the adult!

And teacher who do resort to physical punishment should resign immediately.
How someone, who is educated in pedagogy, can find any excuse to raise his hand against a child is beyond me.

Bungdit Din

friend of ours is a retired head, he taught in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and he's totally against corporal punishment. like he says, if hitting kids was so effective at maintaining discipline, how come schools had to do it every day?

he says that it was only a deterrent for the kids who didn't want to get into trouble in the first place. the nutters and headcases, the ones who most needed to be kept in line, weren't scared of it.

Bahtatboy

Luxury.

Meow

I'd be interested to know if he thinks that there is a general lack of respect for teachers in many schools (in the UK in particular) these days. When I was a child, it was expected that you were polite to all adults and listened to them, but children don't seem to be taught that so much these days.

Seems a shame as badly-behaved, ill-mannered children grow up to be rude, unpleasant adults and we have enough of those as it is...

Bungdit Din

depends on the school. a sought-after school will usually have parents who care about how their kids behave and have brought them up to be polite and respect other people... low-performing schools often have lots of kids whose parents don't give a toss...

Bahtatboy

Yeah, I blame it on the parents, too. No, really.

Madam Medusa

i don't smack my own kids (though god knows they probably need it!) so i certainly wouldn't want anyone else (teacher) doing it...

meow, you're right about the respect thing...loads of kids in the uk don't respect their teachers...my kids' school here works hard on instilling good manners/respect for teachers/parents and you can see it works as you walk round the school...when they finish school for the day, they have to shake hands with the teacher, it's very formal, but i like it...

MM, xx

Bahtatboy

Eugghhh. Shaking the hands of 30 teenage, nose-picking, pocket-billiard-playing, don't-wash-after-peeing, sneezing-into-palms, zit-picking schoolboys. Only if I was wearing surgical gloves.