Post by Tovarisch on Aug 9, 2009 17:53:06 GMT 10
Should teachers be allowed to physically discipline students?
Teachers control the future of society. They do not have any control as individuals, but as a profession they have immense power over how society will be shaped.
Children of today, particularly teenagers, view on life and authority has been degenerating since the 1950,s when the renegade image was deemed to be “cool” by Hollywood and corporate advertising giants.
At the present time, teenagers have little time for discipline in their busy lifestyle of the twenty first century. Teachers have trouble controlling them, but should they be allowed to use corporal punishment? Who is qualified to say they have right to hit children? The parents?
They are who made them into terrors of modern society in the first place. And who made them so lax on the rules? Their parents, who ruled with an iron fist and the back of their hand.
It seems this is a cycle, are we going to see what is wrong with the teenagers of today and try to bring our kids up to be similar? I, for one, am not. If I have to rule with a belt, so be it. But in an age of political correctness and parent being sued by their own children, what is the future going to be like?
To many unanswered questions, we must make the future. We cannot hope that everything will turn out alright, we have to react to what we see.
Once upon a time teachers were allowed to use corporal punishment, but to introduce it to the society of today is lunacy. We should not look to the past for a solution of a current problem, that’s not evolution. We should instead be looking for a solution in the current teenagers, they are the future.
Teachers cant touch children, children cant touch teachers. I remember the day when my grade three teacher said to the class ‘You cant massage my shoulders anymore’ the class responded rather innocently with ‘Why not?’ ‘Because you aren’t allowed to anymore’.
We thought very unfair, why wouldn’t she let us help her bad back?
It seems political correctness was on the rise, and its still rising. We must fight the urge to protect children from the world. We will end up with a ‘baby generation’, they wont be self sufficient. We cannot protect them from everything, the world is not a nice place, but for generations life has gone on. There was still pedophiles and rapists thirty years ago, but now they are getting media attention there was an outcry from society. So there should be, but for the right reasons. Not to try and hide our children, but to try and get rid of the threat.
Teachers are vetted quite well for this sort of thing, they are generally very nice people. They should not however be allowed to physically discipline children. If they feel that the child has done something that warrants such a punishment they should call the parents of the child and tell them what they have done, because chances are, they will agree with you.
Teachers control the future of society. They do not have any control as individuals, but as a profession they have immense power over how society will be shaped.
Children of today, particularly teenagers, view on life and authority has been degenerating since the 1950,s when the renegade image was deemed to be “cool” by Hollywood and corporate advertising giants.
At the present time, teenagers have little time for discipline in their busy lifestyle of the twenty first century. Teachers have trouble controlling them, but should they be allowed to use corporal punishment? Who is qualified to say they have right to hit children? The parents?
They are who made them into terrors of modern society in the first place. And who made them so lax on the rules? Their parents, who ruled with an iron fist and the back of their hand.
It seems this is a cycle, are we going to see what is wrong with the teenagers of today and try to bring our kids up to be similar? I, for one, am not. If I have to rule with a belt, so be it. But in an age of political correctness and parent being sued by their own children, what is the future going to be like?
To many unanswered questions, we must make the future. We cannot hope that everything will turn out alright, we have to react to what we see.
Once upon a time teachers were allowed to use corporal punishment, but to introduce it to the society of today is lunacy. We should not look to the past for a solution of a current problem, that’s not evolution. We should instead be looking for a solution in the current teenagers, they are the future.
Teachers cant touch children, children cant touch teachers. I remember the day when my grade three teacher said to the class ‘You cant massage my shoulders anymore’ the class responded rather innocently with ‘Why not?’ ‘Because you aren’t allowed to anymore’.
We thought very unfair, why wouldn’t she let us help her bad back?
It seems political correctness was on the rise, and its still rising. We must fight the urge to protect children from the world. We will end up with a ‘baby generation’, they wont be self sufficient. We cannot protect them from everything, the world is not a nice place, but for generations life has gone on. There was still pedophiles and rapists thirty years ago, but now they are getting media attention there was an outcry from society. So there should be, but for the right reasons. Not to try and hide our children, but to try and get rid of the threat.
Teachers are vetted quite well for this sort of thing, they are generally very nice people. They should not however be allowed to physically discipline children. If they feel that the child has done something that warrants such a punishment they should call the parents of the child and tell them what they have done, because chances are, they will agree with you.
