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Originally Posted by Guinness
So you're an advocate of child abuse?
Dragging kids by their ear making it hurt for 2 days, or rapping knuckles hard enough to pop blood vessels turning them red..yup great way to get kids to learn, beat the crud out of them, and, according to you totally justified?
Did you actually become smarter because you were physically abused? Tell me one thing that you learned on the day you were humiliated and dragged across the classroom? (other than dont p*** the teacher off)
Are you claiming that kids should not have the right to protection from humiliation and abuse? Are you claiming that teachers should have the right to burst blood vessels and drag young people around by the ear at their leisure?
I learned more when I left school, most of my teachers were like yours...listen or else... didn't engage me, didn't interest me...when I left school and went to further education...lecturers didn't use threats or violence. they engaged and educated me
Good teachers NEVER need to abuse kids...
The one thing you are right about is that education is a farce in this country..kids learn by rote and linear curriculum, creativity and imagination is knocked out of them.
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Bringing back the pointed dunce cap and putting the child in the corner may have some effect too but,I believe teachers using a ear pulling (humiliation) or in extreme cases even a rap across the knuckles with the wooden rule to change a student's behavior is justified.
The lack of FIRM punishment for breaking rules is part of the reason why there is a lot of violence nowadays (i know violence tends to promote violence but i don't see this technique as such). We seem to have grown into a society where it is okay to be rude and disrespectful. Where do we draw the line? Would you rather have children learn about punishment in prison?
Some folk grow up not needing to be punished at all but some (like i did) need it,School just seems to have become glorified baby sitting nowadays.
"what did i learn"...I believe it's called biofeedback,one of the ways that we learn is through pain. If you stick your hand in a fire, it hurts. Unless you’re really stupid, you’re not going to intentionally put your hand back in the fire in a hurry.
This sort of punishment works in a similar way,if you do something bad and something comes out of it that hurts (ear pulling or the slipper), you’re not going to do it again anytime soon and i believe this technique works.Being someone who has seen an appalling drop in teaching standards over the last say 15+years, I do believe that teacher training in this country needs a serious overhaul if the state of education is to improve.(i also learnt not to pee the teacher off
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The powers that be will never allow this sort of punishment to be reinstated G so you don't need to worry.