Bring back the stick!

[craftsman]

According to Prime Minister Abe a "wonderful" report has recommended that...

Japanese schools should rethink their decades-old ban on corporal punishment... The report, submitted amid growing concern over bullying, stopped short of overtly backing beating, but suggested an end to a policy of leniency.

Leniency? Does this 'leniency' they are talking about just mean the teacher doesn't slap you round the face or dig his or her knuckles into your skull?

Since 1947, anything from punishing children by making them stand out in the hall to physically striking them is banned.

Although it still happens of course.

full story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6293849.stm?ls)

So the solution to the problem of bullying and the lack of moral fibre in the youngsters is to to instead now allow the teacher to beat them in to submission.

I always thought corporal punishment to be effective against bullying as the death penalty is against crime.

Isn't corporal punishment a form of bullying anyway?

I recall being asked to bend over and then struck with a long ruler in the front of the class. Another teacher used to slam a cane on to the palm of my hand. I'm sure that if a teacher did the same to my children, I'd come to the school and do it back to the teacher.

[Dutch Baka]

I don't think that beating kids up is the intention of this. But I definitely think that teachers should be allowed to do a little bit more (sending a child out of the class room would be a good idea, or if a child is a real trouble maker the child should be send to another school (this only happened once in the last 5-10 years... I have to search it up).

I work at 6 different elementary schools and when I see how much children actually can do to each other, and a teacher is not allowed to send the boy out of the class room, or send him home for a day I think this changing this law is not such a bad idea.

(No beating up, but a little bit more stricter is necessary for these kids)