If you can’t teach them, beat them.
Recently in Western Australia there has been some discussion about the problems of youth - falling education standards, lack of respect for authority and for the law, bad behaviour with motor vehicles and in other ways.
As usual when these matters are discussed, several people have written to the newspaper advocating the re-introduction of corporal punishment in schools. It was abolished in Western Australian schools some years ago. One man described how he and his cousin had misbehaved at school one day. He got the cane, his cousin got the birch, and they never did it again.
