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In response to the recent riots in England, Michael Gove, the education secretary, is bringing corporal punishment back to British schools. The use of force and other harsh penalties is now allowed by the British government.
Yes, you read that correctly — according to Gove, the use of physical force will teach those rioters a lesson. I wonder if he has even thought of asking any of the offenders why they were rioting and considered how that might relate to the classroom? Are we still living in Charles Dickens’ London?
British Education Secretary Will “Restore Adult Authority” In Schools By Bringing Back The Cane
According the The Guardian, in a speech delivered at Durand academy, in Stockwell, south London, Gove said the regulations on the use of force inhibited teachers’ judgment. He added that there had been a slow erosion of adult authority, subverted by a culture in which young people felt able to ignore civilized boundaries. “The only way to reverse this dissolution of legitimate authority is step-by-step to move the ratchet back in favour of teachers,” he stated.
(For the record, corporal punishment in British state schools, and also in private schools receiving any element of public funding, was banned by parliament in 1987. In the remaining private schools it was banned in 1999 in England and Wales, 2000 in Scotland, and 2003 in Northern Ireland.)
Wanted: More Male Teachers To Provide Authority Figures
Specifically, Education Secretary Gove is scrapping a requirement for teachers to record instances when they use physical force, as part of a wider move to “restore adult authority” in the wake of the riots in England. Gove went on to say that he wanted greater numbers of men teaching, particularly in primary schools, so as to provide children with male authority figures who could display “both strength and sensitivity”.
From The Guardian:
He said: “So let me be crystal clear, if any parent now hears a school say, ‘sorry, we can’t physically touch the students’, then that school is wrong. Plain wrong. The rules of the game have changed.”
Gove said men considering teaching were deterred by a fear of rules that made contact between adults and children “a legal minefield”.
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+ add your ownthis is ridiculous! singing asap!!!!!!!!!
Corporal Punishment is Abuse and should be banned in all schools and homes.
i miss the day when i was in school as i used to be humiliated and beaten by my female teachers,i used to be beaten and humiliated 4 free everyday now i have 2 pay a dominatrix 2 have it but it will never taste as it is used 2
i remember that day when my geography teacher slapped me on my face more than once and order me to put my hands behind my back and i did it and take and love it and now i miss it
corporal punishment is unacceptable.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to read what this is about before starting a petition. Anyway, a return to corporal punishment would be in contravention of European law.
physical force is violence, it is always wrong.
Corporal punishment amounts to assault & battery, child abuse & bullying. It teaches nothing of value & has no place in education, pure & simple.
to all you lazy and bottle fed folk who SIGNED the petition....
read into things before wasting your time with petitions that mean nothing. Gove is NOT bringing back the cane, it is currently illegal to strike another person's child in the UK, and what Gove has actually done is probably the best thing possible, given the ever spiralling bad attitude that is taking over the youth of today.
SORRY ABOUT THE ERROR IT SHOULD HAVE READ
www.childrenareunbeatable.org.uk
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT HAS NOT RETURNED TO BRITISH SCHOOLS, PLEASE LOOK AT:
www.childrenareunbeatable.uk
www.endcorporalpunishment.org
www.nospank.net/n-b23.htm
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