Catholic schoolboys rally for corporal punishment

[MissRose73]

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I wouldn’t want schools to return to the days of whipping like in the 19th century & the students for the most part being respectful to teachers (using sir/ma’am and Mr/Miss Last name all of time ), but at the same time, discipline issues are part of the reasons why students aren’t behaving themselves, doing their work, etc.

Teachers these days are afraid to tell parents that parents need to parent their kids. Even when I was in school in the 1980’s/early 90’s, many students could have benefited from some kind of punishment to stop them from: passing notes, bullying other kids, cheating, talking out of turn in class, not handing in homework, etc.

My mother & her sister went to Catholic elementary school in the 1950’s where the Dominican nuns who taught had no issues about punishing students who misbehaved using physical punishment.

 

[utah_rose]

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I wouldn’t want schools to return to the days of whipping like in the 19th century & the students for the most part being respectful to teachers (using sir/ma’am and Mr/Miss Last name all of time ), but at the same time, discipline issues are part of the reasons why students aren’t behaving themselves, doing their work, etc.

Teachers these days are afraid to tell parents that parents need to parent their kids. Even when I was in school in the 1980’s/early 90’s, many students could have benefited from some kind of punishment to stop them from: passing notes, bullying other kids, cheating, talking out of turn in class, not handing in homework, etc.

My mother & her sister went to Catholic elementary school in the 1950’s where the Dominican nuns who taught had no issues about punishing students who misbehaved using physical punishment.

I also unfortunately went to Catholic schools where the nuns (if they didn’t like you) bullied you . I had one who threw the kids against the black board among other things. I had this nun for two years, and it took me awhile to learn that not all were like that, that she had some mental problems. I remember complaining to my mother and her stock answer was when you get into the working world you’re going to meet people like that (bosses) so you might as well get used to it. I ended up very nervous and afraid. Also, got appendicitis, as this nun constantly belittled my symptoms.

Usually my parents stayed out of this (the teachers were always right) but in this instance my mother went to talk to the nun and after that the bullying stopped.

I think the disciplining should be like it was in high school–de-merits, where if you talked , passed notes, were tardy etc. you’d get a de-merit. I think you were allowed a certain amount of them, and then if you got too many and your grades were low you were suspended or expelled. In elementary school, depriving you of a class trip or recess sometimes does the trick. But the parents have to co-operate and the main problem now are the parents who don’t want their kids saddled with too much homework let alone any discipline, because you see, their kids can’t be at fault. I feel sorry for these youngsters when they attend college and find out that this won’t work, and the workplace will have no use for their little egos.

Usually you had to stay after school and do assignments, or sometimes were given them to do at home, in high school. This was pretty effective as I remember it. I know by the time I was a senior, my class size was cut in half. I don’t remember a nun administering any corporal punishment but I did hear that the coaches who taught the boys were another matter.

There has to be a mutual co-operating between parents and the school system before anything concrete can be worked out.

I am thankful for the advice my mother gave me, because the working world can be rough, and many times I would encounter unfair bosses or associates and my experiences helped me be prepared for life.