Discipline in Schools中譯英~唔該~急~

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Discipline in Schools

Discipline is obviously necessary for a school to function.
Indiscipline not only disrupts teaching and learning but can also endanger learners and educators.
The old fashioned way to discipline students who had been naughty in school was to use physical or corporal punishment.
This meant the teachers could hit the children who had misbehaved with a ruler on the hand, or, if they had been very bad, with a cane on the backside.

Nowadays Corporal punishment, e.g. caning, is prohibited in schools, and anyone found using it can be charged with assault.
Some people think this is good because no one should be able to hit another person, except perhaps their parents.
Others think that it is wrong and that teachers should have this right,
especially if a pupil is really misbehaving and is not responding to just being told off.


Alternative punishments are suspension and expulsion.
A governing body can suspend a learner from school for up to a week for serious misconduct.
This may happen only after a hearing conducted in accordance with the regulations,
i.e. the parents and learner must be given full details of the charge(s), and must be given a chance to tell their side of the story,
and may be represented by someone such as a lawyer.
If the governing body finds the offence serious enough,
it can recommend to the provincial Head of Education that he or she should expel the learner.


Some teachers think that discipline in schools has gotten worse since corporal punishment was stopped.
They think pupils are now naughtier because they are not scared of the teacher.
What do you think?
Would you like to see corporal punishment coming back into schools?