James Christie wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 28 Feb 2005:
I mean, do all the people who make todays policy think that it was a
total coincidence that when we had things like corporal punishment in
schools, or getting 30 days in jail for stealing a bag of coal from the Pit,
that these "barbaric" practices had nothing to do with the virtual
absence of graffiti/vandilism etc?

One of my pet peeves is when people confuse hitting children with
disciplining them. Nobody hit anybody at the school I went to, but we
were well-disciplined and there were plenty of sanctions if we *did*
misbehave. Which mostly we didn't..... But some people don't seem to
know how else to discipline a child, and if they can't hit, they don't
discipline, so little dears run wild....
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"Mrs Redboots"
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