Discipline???? Discuss.

What are your views on discipline in schools? Over here in England since corporal punishment was abolished, many kids are running amok in inner city schools where teachers can do nothing to stem the surge of abuse and violence. I say bring back the cain and a slap around the mush, and let's get some order in our schools. I have no idea what discipline procedures are like in other countries. Educate me and give me your views.

I dunno, in my skool if you misbehave enough you get evening school where you go home, come back at 3:30 and stay at school till 6. Get evening school enough, you get put on a report, no there is 3 different reports, red, orange green according to your behaviour. You have to report to the head of year and head of behaviour at the end of every school day to have it checked. If you dont get off report within two weeks, you're put in the unit which is a seperate building where you spend at least a month, no access to your friends, leave and start school at different times to everyone else, have lunch and break different times to anyone else. Don't get out of the unit, you're expelled. So yeah i think disipline in my school is pretty tight! Sorry it's long!

Ive been to the first two :D lol, im pretty much a good girl at skool :D hehehehe

At my school it was a case by case basis. I went to a private school where really no one misbehaved and they didnt even have detention. Only like 2 kids have ever gotten expelled and only a few have gotten asked to leave for a few days.

I, however, was constantly with my teachers after school because I was a very naughty girl.

But I was the only one.

I would NOT send my kids to a school that practiced corporal punishment. If I want to slap my kids around for being bad, that's one thing, but no one but myself and my kids' father gets to do that.

In our school we have steps..Depends on how many times you are sent to the dean... We have B.I.C Behavior inconvention center..which is sitting in a room with other kids with walls around your desk..pretty much in school detention,...then theres after school detention...suspension...and expulsion....Half of me says hitting kids that arent yours for a punishment is plain wrong! But the other part says hit them because it kept them in line and kids dont do half the stuff they do now...So I dont know..I just know my school is got some lame ways of punishing,...Kids don't learn their lessons anymore..enless you get in a fight then you go to jail...But like I said..my thoughts goes both ways

I think detention and suspension are adequate punishments. Let the kid's parent deal with them. If someone ever hit me in school I would have hit them back, that is not something I would have just taken to behave. When I was in kindergarten my brother was two grades a head of me and back then the paddle was still allowed. The principle hit my bother ONE time and my mother went up there and raised hell. That was the last time my brother was ever hit. He got detention and such after that. If anyone ever laid a finger on a child of mine there would be hell to pay. In middle school and high school no one ever did anything TERRIBLE. I mean there were kids who did really stupid things and got into fights but the punishment given was sufficient, I think. So no, I don't think discipline in schools, as far someone else spanking a child is right.

Another good discussion...

I find nothing wrong with discipline in schools as long as the parents are aware of the deed there child has done and the punishment that will be given. At my old school they made the kids do knuckle pushups instead of spankings. However the parents were told that there kid would be spanked. In that case I was against what the school was doing.
~anne~

In my school, we have 'Crib' (an in school detention)
Detention
In-school suspension
Suspension
Expulsion

I don't think that the teachers should be able to hit the students, because then parents would be able to hit their own kids (and I would get beaten quite a bit). But it would be fun to see someone get slapped on the bottom with a paddle.

i Love Discipline,and i believe its Important,its said "Save the Stick and Spoil the child" means that if we didn't use Discipline ,our Kids will get spoiled ! if we do love them,we have to be Fair
and Tough " tough in a good smart way" : )

Hey, thanks for your varied responses on this - and especially from the USA etc. There's a lot of mention of the parents' responsibility re discipline, and I agree that it should begin at home. However, I know for a fact that many parents are failing on this. This sounds pretty crass, but it seems to me that it's all down to IQ and education, because some of the parents are out of control these days! This might be due to post-60s liberal attitudes, which is fine if the parents' had the intelligence to see that when all the 'peace and love and drugs' had ended (if it ever did) there's still air of responsibility towards their offspring. Some just missed the point completely. Today we have a society in Britain that couldn't give a fuck; and I agree it's fine not to give a fuck if that's what you want - so long as you're not encroaching on others and disrespecting them. But this is not the case.