Every day on my news website-ninemsn.com.au a question is asked and people vote on it.

This morning the question is:

Should school corporal punishment be re-introduced?

At 8.20am the voting stood as follows.

Yes 42622

No 18735

An interesting question I thought and if I had have been asked, I would have thought the figures would have been reversed. It will never be re-introduced but it is interesting to see the amount of people in favour of its re-introduction.

Mike

Polls have produced similar figures in the UK, there have been similar murmurings in Scotland over the last two years.

Interesting to see, the age groups these and other figures relate.

We know CP will never be re-introduced, but the mere fact people are voting in favour, a turn around for more drastic measures, should be a big enough wake up call the powers to be, to introduce something more positive to bring discipline back to the classroom

Ketta

As the only country to reintroduce it after formal abolition was Nazi Germany, I won't bother discussing the issue.

I think the dysfunctonal parents need a wake-up call, slightly more than the track-suited teachers Ketta encountered with her grandchild the other day.

It amazes me to think teachers turn up for work like that & expect children to behave with them. This is one profession where you do need to set an example, and I would view track-suited teachers off the playing field as sloppy-I saw my baby gettin' sloppy-as memorably sung by Devo.

It amazes me more than Ketta is a gran, but I'll bet all the other kids and teachers think she's the little lad's Mum!


Steve M