school smacking ban 'should go'

[sophabaubles]

here

shades of the American bible belt in the UK?

[spacedonkey]

FFS!

[spacedonkey]

[peskykids]

Whilst simultaneously tutting loudly!

[spacedonkey]

< rolls eyes exasperatedly >

[TwasTheNightBeforeCatbert]

Well fancy that. God himself condones thrashing our children. Well, I guess that's OK then. [ironic emoticon]

(for crying out loud...)

[peskykids]

just for the fun of it...

[MariNativityPlay]

Not everyone's God...

[Uwila]

Oh what has happened here? I never thought I'd agree with mumsnet majority. But.... I must say that smacking has no place in schools.

I think that parents have a right to determine if a situation warrants smacking by them. But if my kid got smacked at scholl, I thinkI'd go find the teacher who smacker her and smack him/her.

[happymerryberries]

Teachers don't smack children in school. I have yet to see a teacher (in a normal school) who wants smacking introduced. I'd like to see more effective measures for dicipline in school, with exclusion having real teeth. I would also like parents being made responsible for their children behaviour (SEN excepted)

[Uwila]

Uh, happymerryberries, have you read the link? It's a school that wants the ban lifted so that they can smack (with parental consent). It's about this one particular school, not teachers in general.

[popsycal]

OMG!

[saintlysecur]

just laugh-it is beneath contempt and not worthy of us expending our precious energy being cross wih it

[happymerryberries]

True it is only the one school and IIRC it is a rather strange church school at that .....not your mainstream C of E or Catholic. Which is why I said in a normal school. THis smacks (no pun intended) of the same lot who want to ban the teaching of evolution and force creationism to be taught in science lessons

[Uwila]

Just curious, is this school private or funded by the state (i.e. church aided)?

Can private school smack? I'm just curious.

[happymerryberries]

Not sure, but I am 99% sure that they don't. The one my kids goes to definatly don't

[Cinderellascarrieg]

I think they could for a bit after it was banned in state schools, but then ban was extended to them too?

[happymerryberries]

Think you are right

[marialuisa]

Uwila-it's a private school and receives no state-funding. And private schools can't hit kids either(hence the appeal).

It is linked to the same kind of groups that believe in creationism etc. Kind of like an extreme Southern Baptist group, if that means anything.

[sophabaubles]

when i first heard the report on radio 4 (sadcase loves radio4 here) it sounded like a group of private schools not just one...

they have been through most of the courts, now going to high court of appeal i think...

it's exactly the anti-evolution/creationist type thing happymerryberries, that's why i worded my original post like that...scarey stuff.

who are you happymerryberries btw...i'm getting so confused with these xmas names!

[happymerryberries]

Sorry, thought my typos would give me away....hmb

[Hulababy]

Agree with what hmb syas (again). As a teacher I do not wanting smacking reintroduced. I really don't think it belongs in school at all and isn't effective as a punishment anyway (IMO only). Even if a ban was lifted I would not smack.


Smacking isn't allowed in any school in the UK as far as I am aware. Same as it isn't allowed in nurseries/childcare (private or otherwise).