A Labourer at the Bitface » violence http://devilgate.org/blog Warning: contains language from the outset Sun, 06 May 2012 23:10:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Corporal punishment: not on my watch http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/10/03/corporal-punishment-not-on-my-watch/ http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/10/03/corporal-punishment-not-on-my-watch/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:57:18 +0000 Martin McCallion http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/10/03/corporal-punishment-not-on-my-watch/ Continue reading →]]> There was an arse on the Today programme this morning, calling for the return of corporal punishment to schools. One in five teachers, he says, want it ‘as an option’.

Two points, then: a) that means four in five don’t want it, and b) why do you think it’s all right to use violence against children? (and as a corollary, how do you think doing so will make them less prone to using violence themselves?)

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