4 Oct 2008, 0117 hrs IST,ANI
LONDON: Teachers in Britain, it seems, believe strongly in the saying ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’, for according to a new survey one in five educators of the country wants the cane brought back in schools. The survey of 6,200 teachers by the Times Educational Supplement found that a fifth supported the right to use corporal punishment in extreme cases. The poll revealed that 22% secondary teachers and 16% of the primary teachers demand the revival of corporal punishment. “Children’s behaviour is absolutely outrageous in the majority of schools. I am a supply teacher, so I see many schools, and there are no sanctions. There are too many anger management people and their ilk who give children the idea that it is their right to flounce out of lessons for time out because they have problems with their temper. They should be caned instead,” the Sun quoted Judith Cookson, a supply teacher, as saying. On the other, hand just 12% of heads, deputies and assistants have backed the idea, says the survey.
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