So our poor little darling teachers want the cane back! Everyone say "Ahhh".
Tough!
Thirty-five years ago my daughter was a pupil at Meadowhead School and we were called to a PTA meeting packed with parents.
The head teacher announced that they wanted to abolish the cane and the strap. Every parent in the hall said, "
No." However, it was put to the national vote and passed.
The following year, we had another PTA meeting and the teachers told us, it was wrong for the pupils to "call us Mr, Mrs or Miss" and they want pupils to "call us by our christian names." Again the parents voted "No, no." But it was passed at the Teachers' national vote.
We told the teachers this would lead to no respect for the teachers and we have been proved right!
I wish every pupil would give each teachers a damned good hiding, it may knock some sense into them. Pupils need discipline and teachers need respect and coming down to a pupil's level is not the way to go about it.
Has anyone noticed our prisons are full? Come out of the Court of Human Rights. We need hanging back for people who murder, cat-o'- nine-tails for the ones who hurt anyone and the cane for the under 18s.
Prison should be what it used to be in the early part of the 20th century: no comforts and loss of liberty!
Now, before anyone writes and tells me what a vile man I am, let me say this: I am a churchgoer, I help the sick and I am a member of many groups that help people. I only want to see the wrongdoers punished.
I have written what many people are thinking. Will it happen? I think not. We have too many do-gooders!
RK, an 80 -year-old, (Name and address supplied)What do you think? Add your comments below.
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