For those of you who grew up with corporal punishment....Would you prefer a paddling over after school ?

Question

detention, in school suspensions or some other non violent punishment? Tell the truth.

Answer 1

Non-violent.  There is no violence in a well executed @ss whipping.  When I went to school we got whooped when we acted up.  And our principal was a customer service-oriented guy.  He believed in serving the community at the community level.  He would bring the whipping to you!  Right there in front of everyone and you know what?  Come h**l or high water, you learned your lesson the first time.  Rarely was there a repeat offender.

And guess how many school shootings we had then?  NONE.  Better yet, almost everyone had unfettered access to a gun as I grew up in a suburban-rural area where hunting was a way of life!  And no one ever got shot at school.

Now, just a few years later, paddling is gone and all the kids want to do is shoot up their schools and go home and cut themselves to suicide music.

Answer 2

Personally, I don't think anyone should paddle my child except me or my husband.  

Answer 3

For me, when I was in school, I preferred the in school suspension, but I would have taken a paddling over detention.  That said, the real question should be whether or not the instructors should have the right to use corporal punishment (which I don't believe they should, although I believe parents certainly should).  Actually, I don't believe that the state (in this case represented by the school) should have nearly as much power as it does over our children, the way they are raised, the beliefs that are instilled within them and the morals they are to be left with.  In my opinion, an instructor should more or less be limited to removing a student from the class or talking to parents if grading doesn't work.  

Answer 4

I'd prefer a paddling hands down...just get it over with as fast as possible.  If I needed to stay after school it was because of a tutorial reason or an activity.  Getting a detention for me was equal to double punishment.  My mother would find out if I got detention and I'd get a paddling from her anyway.  Then again I grew up in the late 70's into the 80's.

As far as what they do now, detention is a big time waster at my school.  The kids just have to sit there. No talking--just sitting.

Answer 5

They need to make sure the student is guilty and paddle the daylights out of them.However teachers blew their right to paddle by misusing this power.

Answer 6

I don't think anyone should ever hit a child. It fixes nothing and makes the child resentful of the adult world.  

Answer 7

I would prefer to stay after school and get my homework done,but I would take the paddling if I had something beTter to do after school. At our school the kids love detention,it is really a joke,the teacher just leaves them alone to party. But in the 60 s teachers would never do that.

Answer 8

I would prefer detention because I didnt want to go home and because the teachers will help you with your homework. a paddling is like the epitomy of death! not really but I do know kids would rather have suspensions so that they can hang out.

Answer 9

We did not have corporal punishment in school where I grew up, and I did get detention a couple of times. I would not have wanted to get paddled instead. Detention was okay, especially when there were several girls staying behind. It's just that getting detention in school often meant a spanking at home for me.