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[winterfall]

[interestedinhanguk]

[edwardcatflap]

either are ok in British English

[Privateer]

[interestedinhanguk]

[Scott in Incheon]

never...never hit my kids...never hit a student...

never hit as a kid...never hit as a student...

and everything has turned out fine....for me and my kids

[NYC_Gal]

My mom smacked me on occasion. I deserved it

I'm also glad that she did. If I could go back, I'd slap myself too!

[asylum seeker]

One time a kid punched me in the stomach so I physically dragged him outside the classroom.
Another time I got 똥침ed so I rapped the boy on the head with my pen.
Another time a male student hit a female student hard across the face so I dragged him out of the class as well.
I think if a student physically assaults a teacher or another student then the teacher is justified in physically restraining the student as long as it's not heavy-handed.

[Even Hotter]

You realise you would have been banned from teaching and possibly fined or imprisoned in the US for that right?

[PRagic]

Back in the 90s I had a university English class that was WAY too big to be manageable. There was a group of a-hole loudmouths in the back far corner who literally would not shut up. I asked them repeatedly, I reasoned, I kicked one or two out of the room, other students complained to them. But they were too cool to be bothered.

Finally, the ring leader, a total biatch princess, was the last of the cool enough to brave flagrant behaviour in the face of imminent danger.

Danger came by way of one of those big, old schook, chalk encrusted, puffy black board erasers lobbed with precision by myself across the entire classroom on a tradjectory that would see it smack her perfectly upside the head. Chalk dust everywhere. A roar or laughter. The princess screamed bloody murder, started crying, and said that she was going straight to my department chair.

I gave her his name card as she exited the classroom. Never heard a peep from her again, and nothing ever came of it.

[rollo]

Corporeal punishment is not a good idea ever. I really dont care what the offense is. I taught the worst group of 12 year old boys imaginable , they caught the curtains in the classroomon fire once, Real hagwon hellions. I would get sick of them and take them outside and play a type of rugby using a soccer ball it would release the energy and i could enjoy them shellacking each other.

I was lucky , in high school the school vice principal was an ex marine , he also helped coach the football team and was the school discipinarian, get in a fight you had to wrestle him greco roman, now he wouldnt hurt you but damn you didnt want to get into anymore fights . Also lots of lap running. He was tough as nails , never gave an inch , pretty much loved and respected by everyone. He would have never laid his hands on a child in a harmful way. He probably saved a couple of boys who would have been bound for prison if it hadnt been for him . There are much better ways to discipline.

[SinclairLondon]

Many kids here have become too inured to the violence and won't respond to the suppliant whimperings of NETs. And on the other side of the spectrum, many are the cynsosures of their parents eyes, infalliable and peerless. And thats why I'll never work in a public school or back home. I really dig hagwons, just wish they would offer more vacation time.

[interestedinhanguk]

[olsanairbase]

I remember this one Korean Teacher who would walk in and look for girls with hair spray in their hair then she would come with both hands and violently mess it up.
She also liked it when she found them earrings which she would then rip off their ears (luckily they were clip on types) and then throw out the 3rd floor window.


A friend of mine taught at a boy school where the boys called Principal charles barkeley not because of his height but because of the size of his fit he would hit them with.

[asylum seeker]