Let me repeat this post
In the UK- children used to get caned- sometimes until they bled. Children! I don't think anyone thinks that taking a cane and beating the hell out of children was a good idea. Read Roald Dahls book BOY if you think so. It was cruel.
But you had an education system who went from using corporal punishment as a deterent to using nothing- snap... just like that. There wasn't a process to it. There wasn't an alternative introduced. So now you have a whole generation of parents who are clueless- who think the school discipline should stay in the schools. And don't want to involve themselves.
Laralee, this is the key. Corporal punishment need not be as severe as you're describing. But frankly if it's going to do any good, discipline has to be painful---whether physically or otherwise.
"No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it." Hebrews 12:11.
Again, it doesn't have to be physically painful, but it does have to be a consequence that the children truly want to avoid. That narrows the list quite a lot.
I certainly wouldnt want any child caned until they bled, However a few good licks never hurt anyone and could do a lot of good.
I don't deny there have been excesses.
I never saw a classmate with more than a bruised ego in my experiences, and the sound of someone else getting a couple of monitored whacks, was a great deterrent to others.
Just kicking them out of school creates more problems to society than teaching them that actions have consequences throughout life. They don't get that by sending them home to MTV and the internet and their buddies basement.