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Bring back the cane

The youth of today make me sick,SICK SICK .
Darn liberals and women, you have turned them into a bunch of disrespectful,rowdy yobs ...
They have no respect for authority,They are always abusing alcohol and getting drunk. always rolling around in their, gangs smoking their fags in their dirty council estates

Its time we brought back the cane because this all started when teachers were no longer allowed to discipline them .

Its time to bring it back

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Reply 1
tbh I feel kids do need more discipline, I was disciplined by my parents and it gave me a sense of morals and so forth,

that being said, if a teacher ever caned me, id make it my mission to make their elderly life a living hell as retribution, and id say many people would do the same, similar or worse lol
Why the **** are women responsible?

That said, I think discipline is a good thing. Apparently studies show physical punishment doesn't make for a better society, so I think that may simply not work. The root causes of the things you point out are;

- Economic and technological development - no need to work hard to survive, and a massive sense of entitlement from all social backgrounds.
- Possibly the end of caning.
- Lack of religion.

I don't want to bring religion back, but I won't deny it did a lot to keep people in check. I just think a life run by fear is not worth the extra benefit. I think the main reason is the first.

I don't have a solution, but I wouldn't idealise the past either - there has always been plenty of violence and gangs around.
Reply 3
Reply 4
The cane? Really?

I'm all for a bit more discipline but corporal punishment really isn't the way to go, I for one know if a teacher had tried to cane me I'd have shoved it up their arse then smashed their car to pieces, just like most people from my school.
Reply 5
i think that the cane is barbaric. todays "kids" need a more technological approach to punishment. a handheld device based on the taser could be employed, with increasing voltage to match the severity of the offence. simples.
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No thanks, I don't do state-sanctioned rattan bruises.
Great!.. ...untill the teacher goes bat**** insane for some ****ed up reason and decides to whack a student for not doing anything wrong. There are teachers in my school that have this personality.
Bring back some discipline, but not the cane.
Original post by theoferdinand
The youth of today make me sick,SICK SICK .
Darn liberals and women, you have turned them into a bunch of disrespectful,rowdy yobs ...
They have no respect for authority,They are always abusing alcohol and getting drunk. always rolling around in their, gangs smoking their fags in their dirty council estates

Its time we brought back the cane because this all started when teachers were no longer allowed to discipline them .

Its time to bring it back


1. It doesn't matter if you personally feel the youth make you, ''sick, SICK SICK''.
2. Have liberals (and women?? :s-smilie:) done this? If so, prove it. As for being disrespectful and rowdy, why are these two things bad? Also, is there evidence to suggest that most young people are like this?
3. ''No respect for authority'' - Same as above, is there evidence for this and, if so, why is this bad?
4. Gangs, alcohol and dirty council estates have nothing to do with the cane. Beating students up will not change this (unless you could provide evidence that it does).
5. You provide no evidence/proof to shows that ''all of this'' has been caused by the removal of the cane.

Although I smell a troll.

2/10, try to make it less obvious.
Sounds kinky... I'm totally game :sexface:
1 Teacher with a stick vs 20-30 unruly yobs? Sounds like a recipe for a great battle.
The cane is sadistic :no:
LOL Someone has had a sheltered upbringing. Try going into a Year 11 class in East London and threatening kids with the cane, you'll likely get beaten the **** out of by them. To be honest I wouldn't blame them either, adults aren't allowed to beat each other over disagreements in day to day life, why should teachers be permitted to abuse children they cannot control?
No, we need a more 21st century approach. Tasers are the modern weapon that should be used.

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Original post by FrostyLemon
LOL Someone has had a sheltered upbringing. Try going into a Year 11 class in East London and threatening kids with the cane, you'll likely get beaten the **** out of by them. To be honest I wouldn't blame them either, adults aren't allowed to beat each other over disagreements in day to day life, why should teachers be permitted to abuse children they cannot control?


Year 11s in East london are a bunch of pussys compared to what they were in the 50s, 60s and 70s when we still had corpral punishment. We used it back then on yobs, we can use it today.

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Take my case for example.
I endured caning (especially when I was in school) when I was a child, which was a punishment for mostly academic issues eg. not handing in homework on time.
I did manage to be a 'good' student, i.e. a student whom does all his/her homework, not making trouble in school etc.
I did also become more disciplined too, doing what I'm 'supposed' to do as a student.
However, until today, I do have a sense of fear towards teachers, sometimes even lecturers, better still strangers.
I'm pretty timid to make friends with classmates because I can't open up easily.
Caning had somehow left a permanent scar in me that triggers bitterness whenever I thought of it.
But considering from another viewpoint, it did shape a part of my current personality, which somehow I am quite comfortable with it ... (I could've been more socialised and more expressive if caning never/seldom happened)
Original post by the mezzil
Year 11s in East london are a bunch of pussys compared to what they were in the 50s, 60s and 70s when we still had corpral punishment. We used it back then on yobs, we can use it today.

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The British education system, not to mention the world, is a lot different to how it was back then. Caning was socially acceptable in that era, If you tried introducing it now it would only be a matter of time before a teacher canes a child and is then stabbed on their way home from work out of revenge, and that would be essentially for 'doing their job'. How would you like that on your conscience?

What if a teacher takes the punishment too far and hurts a child quite badly? What if they enjoy doing it? What about children in nursery can we cane them?
Original post by Octohedral
Why the **** are women responsible?

That said, I think discipline is a good thing. Apparently studies show physical punishment doesn't make for a better society, so I think that may simply not work. The root causes of the things you point out are;

- Economic and technological development - no need to work hard to survive, and a massive sense of entitlement from all social backgrounds.
- Possibly the end of caning.
- Lack of religion.

I don't want to bring religion back, but I won't deny it did a lot to keep people in check. I just think a life run by fear is not worth the extra benefit. I think the main reason is the first.

I don't have a solution, but I wouldn't idealise the past either - there has always been plenty of violence and gangs around.


The Internet and media probably don't help, they make people seek attention and expose them to rubbish.
Original post by theoferdinand
The youth of today make me sick,SICK SICK .
Darn liberals and women, you have turned them into a bunch of disrespectful,rowdy yobs ...
They have no respect for authority,They are always abusing alcohol and getting drunk. always rolling around in their, gangs smoking their fags in their dirty council estates

Its time we brought back the cane because this all started when teachers were no longer allowed to discipline them .

Its time to bring it back


1) lol women? so misogyny is also on the agenda?
2) on what grounds should children have respect for authority? did they vote the government into power? would you respect a government you didn't vote for? authority should be questioned, not respected. respect for the sake of power is ignorant and blind.
3) people have the right to drink, don't they?

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